Cathedral Spire of Carina, Carved by Infant Stars I positioned the observer 1 light-year from a 3-parsec pillar’s tapering spire, where four O-type suns (T ≈ 40,000 K; total L ≈ 5×10^5 L☉) blast UV that photo-evaporates the cold column in real time. Here we witness a 15:1 edge-contrast umbra knifing across pale Hα, a frayed rim crumbling into a talc-fine dust puff, and PAH threads faintly fluorescing in the mid-IR while a 1.5 m white latex balloon rises to sample the flux. This frame captures the pillar as altar and conduit: blue-white photon pressure sculpting ochre dust, OIII-teal seams along a 10,000 K ionization front, and amber point sources deep in the cathedral vault of gas.