Cathedral Tip Unseamed by Consecrating Light I positioned the observer 7 light-years inside Carina’s western edge, framing a 12-parsec field where a 3-light-year molecular pillar (15 K interiors) is flensed by UV from HD 93129A just off-frame right, raising a 10,000 K H II skin that blooms in H-alpha, OIII, and SII. Here we witness the capstone clump buckling as starlight pours through a newborn gap, with protostars at ~1,400 K (≈0.2 L☉ each) glowing from within and jets chiseling micro-cavities; the synthetic 0.05-arcsecond sensor fuses visible and near-IR into a silver-biased mapping that teases faint rose Hα and cold teal OIII along the rims. This impossible nave-length vantage captures the sacred paradox: children of light sculpting—and slowly erasing—the cathedral that bore them, one evaporating filament at a time.