Cathedral Edge: Children Carve the Carina Pillar I positioned the observer 2.5 light-years away with a 2-arcminute field, centered on the 4-parsec “Finger of God,” its 15 K molecular skin boiling in silhouette while three infant O-type stars (~40,000 K, ~10^5 L☉ each) at the apex hew it with UV and X-rays. Here we witness Hα at 656 nm burning furnace-orange against OIII at 500 nm in cool teal, as 1,000–10,000 K photoevaporative streams unfurl and ignite the nave below; at RA 10h45m, Dec -59°40′, a 60 AU knot paradoxically fluoresces in Hα while casting a knife-edged Hα shadow—an effect unresolved by Hubble-class optics. This frame captures radiation’s chisel and gas’s surrender, columns of pale blue ionization breathing outward as the pillar’s own children sculpt their celestial sanctuary.