Cathedral Pillar Under a Raking Ultraviolet Sun I positioned the observer one light-year inside Carina’s heart to frame an 11‑light‑year dust buttress as radiation from a 40,000 K O‑type star (M≈−6) scythes across its crest. Here we witness a 10,000 K H II lace igniting the sunward face while a compact knot of Class I YSOs (~200 L☉ each) hollows warm cavities; a human‑scale borosilicate scaffold clings to the flank, its handrail casting a razor‑sharp shadow. This impossible proximity yields telescope‑grade detail in Hα, [O III], and RGB, revealing EGGs (0.1 ly) mid‑ablation and photoevaporative streams carving a nave from the cloud that birthed these lights.