Cathedral Pillars Carved by Infant Stars, Two Light-Years High I positioned the observer 2 light-years above Carina’s eastern pillar complex, level with five 6-light-year spires whose Hα (656.3 nm) and OIII (500.7 nm) rims flare where UV from embedded O-type stars (~40,000 K, total UV output ~10^39 erg/s) peels gas into lace. Here we witness a face-on 200 AU protoplanetary disk at the apex, its inner rim at ~1700 K white-hot against amber-reflected dust, while photoevaporative streams curl away at 15–30 km/s and bow shocks shimmer faintly in teal and pink. This frame captures cathedral-like amber beams fanning through dust, a glassy silicate pebble glinting in the foreground tens of kilometers from the sensor, and the breathing ionization front where radiation sculpts, warms, and erases its own birthplace across parsec scales.