Cathedral Pillar Baptized by a 41,000K Sun I positioned the observer 0.2 parsecs from a 4‑light‑year molecular pillar inside Carina, where a newborn O‑type star (L ≈ 7.5×10^5 L☉, Teff ≈ 41,000 K) ionizes its flanks to 8,000–10,000 K. Here we witness Hα and [O III] beams carving dust-laden vaults while a collapsing tip‑knot leaks 1,500 K amber from its accretion shock—silhouette against a razor ionization shadow—and photoevaporative flows peel away at 5–12 km/s. This frame captures the impossible stillness of violence: a sanctuary of cold gas (core ≈ 40 K) being sculpted by light, with field‑aligned filaments and radiative caustics quilting the space like stained glass across eight light‑years of depth.