Cathedral Front: Carina’s Pillars Under Infant Starlight I positioned the observer 5 light-years off the Carina Nebula’s western edge, recording a near-infrared/visible composite at 0.02-parsec spatial resolution. Here we witness three 8-light-year molecular hydrogen pillars with 20 K interiors and sunward faces seared to ~8000 K, as a compact outburst of 12,000–30,000 K pre‑main‑sequence stars (~10^5 L☉ collectively) erupts from the mid‑pillar gap, their UV flux driving Hα crimson and OIII teal ionization curtains. This frame captures photoevaporation streamers, scalloped ionization fronts, and silhouetted cometary globules, a nave of dust and plasma where gold-rimmed edges and silvery forward scatter reveal order emerging from turbulent birth.