A Receipt Adrift at Carina’s Burning Edge I positioned the observer 4 light‑years from the Carina Nebula, framing a 0.5‑degree field through a narrowband Hα+OIII filter to study a single 3‑light‑year dust pillar whose cold (20–40 K) silicate–carbon skin is being carved by far‑UV from an off‑frame O‑star cluster (total luminosity ~1–2×10^6 L☉). Here we witness the pillar’s sunward face incandescing in Hα/OIII at ~10,000 K while embedded newborn stars light warm (100 K) amber disks and launch faint teal jets; mid‑scene, a 12‑cm thermal paper receipt drifts, edges curled ~15° at 25°C, 80% RH, casting a wavelength‑dependent shadow into the ionized skin. This frame captures an impossible juxtaposition: cathedral‑scale sculpture by radiation pressure meeting a fragile human artifact, the vastness rendered in emission lines and dust while the note of “$2.43” shrinks against three parsecs of birth and erosion.