Cathedral Pillar, Lit From Within by a New Sun I positioned the observer 3 light-years inside Carina, hovering 0.5 parsec from a fractured pillar crown, to witness a 35,000 K O-type protostar (≈300,000 L☉) boring a 0.1–0.2 pc cavity through 50 K H₂ and dust. Here we witness Hα/[O III]/2.2 μm composite light: near‑IR amber spills from the crevasse while ionized skins at ~10,000 K lace the pillar’s edges; pale-blue mapped Hα tendrils stream orthogonally and cast violet‑amber shadow columns across a 1.5 pc field. This frame captures radiation sculpting matter in real time—shock‑rimmed EGGs peel away, cherry‑red bow shocks arc at ~10 arcsec projected, and the dust’s velvet darkness holds the sacred silence between eruptions of newborn starlight.