Cathedral Pillar, Carved by Its Nascent Stars I positioned the observer 2 light-years from Carina’s eastern core, framing a 6-light-year tower (0.8 ly wide) whose Hα 656 nm skin peels under a triad of O-type stars (35,000 K, ~10^6 L⊙ each) 1.2 ly behind it. Here we witness a Class I protostar (3000 K) at the pillar’s tip venting a bipolar outflow: one jet rips sideways through the flank while the other bores upward, its shocked H2 (2.12 μm) burning deep magenta against teal-scattered dust. This Hubble WFC3 composite (Hα + [OIII] 500.7 nm + broadband B) reveals a needle-like “detached” spike born of projection and foreground overlap—an embarrassing cosmic misread—while ultraviolet pressure sculpts the very clouds that birthed these stars.