Cathedral Pillars Unraveling Under Infant O-Stars I positioned the observer 3 light-years off Carina’s western edge to span 15 light-years of vertical pillars whose tips blaze at 30,000 K and ~100,000 L☉. Here we witness ionization fronts racing at ~10 km/s, carving H-alpha scarlet and OIII teal filigree as 40–80 K dust recoils into velvet shadows against a 10,000 K plasma vault. This frame captures the impossible intimacy of a nebula interior—precision close-up of cometary knots dissolving while Bok globules cradle 30 K darkness—photoreal telescope physics from a vantage no instrument could hold.