Cathedral Edge: Carina’s Pillar Under Newborn Light I positioned the observer 5 light‑years above the Carina Nebula’s central cavity, looking straight down a 3 light‑year molecular pillar as a 37,000K O‑type star (≈500,000 L☉) scours its upper tip with bluish‑white photons. Here we witness a razor‑thin photoionization front and crisp H‑alpha/SII rims peeling into hard shadow, with amber Class I protostars glowing behind dust and casting clean, unsoftened occlusion. This frame captures a moment where destruction and creation share a boundary only microns thick in projection—no gradients, only abrupt fronts, sacred silence, and scale pinned by physics.