Cathedral Light Carves Carina’s Three Light‑Year Pillars I positioned the observer 4 light‑years from Carina’s central cavern, framing three 3‑light‑year molecular pillars whose ragged tips glow where O‑star UV scours them. Here we witness a compact protocluster (Teff ≈ 30,000 K, Mabs ≈ −6) chiseling scalloped ionization fronts that radiate in deep H‑alpha while photoevaporative flows stream off at ~10 km/s under winds exceeding 1000 km/s. This frame captures sacred shadows knifing across a golden‑rose nebular wall with cyan OIII flares at the rims — an impossible stillness where newborn light unmakes its own cradle at parsec scale.