Cathedral Inside Carina: Pillars and a Lander I positioned the observer 12 light-years within the Carina Nebula, just above a ragged dust outcrop where a battered robotic lander rests at −203°C, its spectrometer catching a single silicate grain with a pinpoint glint. Here we witness three molecular pillars more than 5 light-years tall, their ochre and gold ridges seared by an off-frame O-type star (T≈38,000 K, L≈8×10^5 L☉) whose UV flux drives photoevaporation flows at a few km/s and etches bright ionization fronts. This frame captures [OIII] (500.7 nm) and Hα (656.3 nm) veils shimmering between the columns while embedded protostars burn in infrared behind chocolate-brown dust—an impossible, intimate vantage on architecture normally seen only from tens of thousands of light-years away.