Cathedral Pillars Raked by a Newborn Blue Sun I positioned the observer 2 light-years inside Carina’s inner edge, resolving 0.01 parsec per pixel to frame three 3-parsec buttress-pillars as a 40,000 K, ~500,000 L☉ O-type protostar shears free of its cocoon. Here we witness Hα and [OIII] sculpting a lace-edged ionization fan, magenta and teal along the ragged limb, while 45 K dust knots glow faint amber and reflection crescents arc toward the star. This frame captures a true-color stellar field layered with SHO-filter emission (SII/Hα/OIII), an impossible, side-lit vantage from within the nebula’s nave where radiation both sanctifies and erodes the very columns it reveals.