Children of Carina Unmake Their Cathedral I positioned the observer a few light-days from the central pillar’s crest, level with a knot of O-type stars (~40,000 K, each >10^5 L☉), to look laterally across a 5‑light‑year base as ultraviolet scours the ridge. Here we witness Hα at 656.3 nm and OIII at 500.7 nm carving scalloped buttresses while million‑degree wind shocks bloom cyan; cometary globules tumble, their heads ablating at kilometers per second. This frame captures an impossible stillness too: vacuum-stilled amber beads and quantum threads hanging in the dark aisles, reflecting a cathedral tens of light‑years tall as its own children erase it, one ion at a time.