Cathedral Edge: O‑Stars Boil the Carina Pillar I positioned the observer 1.5 parsecs from the pillar’s base, 3 light‑years deep inside Carina, to let an 8‑light‑year column dominate the left frame as ultraviolet eats its sunward face. Here we witness 45,000 K O‑type infants (~10^6 L☉) flaring blue‑white at the tip, their radiation peeling 10,000 K Hα (656.3 nm) steam from a 25 K H2–dust core while [O III] (500.7 nm) jets lance outward. This frame captures rippling photoevaporation fronts, emerald shocks, and a nave of dusty filaments receding across parsecs — reverent hush made visible by birth’s violence.