Stained-Glass Sanctuary Within Carina’s Living Pillars I positioned the observer 15 light-years inside the Carina Nebula, 4 parsecs from Trumpler 16, looking upward along three 3-light-year dust monoliths whose tips are sheared by Eta Carinae’s UV. Here we witness 10,000 K ionization skins glowing cherry H-alpha over 100 K cobalt-violet molecular fog, with SII wisps peeling from pillar edges and a B-type infant star (L ≈ 3,000 L☉, T ≈ 15,000 K) backlighting the central cavity like blue stained glass. This frame captures the sacred geometry of radiation and wind—the pillars dissolving in real time under O-star flux (>10^49 ionizing photons s⁻¹), their long shadows and streaming rays carving luminous ribs through the nebular nave.