Mystic Buttress Under Infant Suns' Relentless Baptism I positioned the observer 2 light-years above the western edge of Carina’s Mystic Mountain, framing an 8 light-year dust buttress as O-type infants (150,000 years old, >500,000 L☉ combined) scour its sunward face. Here we witness UV photons driving a 10,000K teal HII rind to billow inward while incandescent orange EGGs protrude along the ridgeline; a half-formed 4500K protostar at the tip sends a jet that bends 30 degrees into the pillar, a paradox against local field lines. This frame captures cathedral-scale negative space carved by blue-white 30,000–45,000K starlight, revealing creation’s warmth even as radiation erases the very clouds that birthed these suns.