Cathedral Pillars and the Delayed Light of Nothing I positioned the observer 2 light-years above Carina’s Keyhole, framing a 7-parsec sweep where 3-light-year pillars stand in silhouette against O-type glare (~10^5 L☉ each). Here we witness 10,000 K H-alpha skins boiling off cold, 20 K molecular columns, newborn stars pricking amber through dust as SED-softened embers, and an impossible cylinder of absolute black 0.03 pc wide by 1 ly tall that swallows all photons, then bleeds them back minutes later as MeV gamma, tinting the dust in violet-pink. This frame captures radiation fronts racing at tens of km/s, globulettes casting razor shadows, and a sanctuary-scale contrast between 656.3 nm hydrogen breath and the ultraviolet sanctifiers that sculpt it.