04-20-2026, 09:03 PM
The next eruption is days away, in the meantime here’s some recent research on Pele’s Hair.
But that process, which creates strands of Pele’s hair of different lengths, did not explain why Pele’s hair was sometimes found in bundles of hundreds, or even thousands, of aligned strands. Ed Llewellin, a volcanologist at Durham University in England, remembers finding one such formation on the Big Island of Hawaii. “I was 100 percent convinced it was a woman’s ponytail lying on the lava,” Dr. Llewellin said. “It was really quite shocking.”
A team led by Dr. Gillies and Dr. Llewellin investigated how bundles of aligned strands of Pele’s hair might form.
https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.c...ience.html
But that process, which creates strands of Pele’s hair of different lengths, did not explain why Pele’s hair was sometimes found in bundles of hundreds, or even thousands, of aligned strands. Ed Llewellin, a volcanologist at Durham University in England, remembers finding one such formation on the Big Island of Hawaii. “I was 100 percent convinced it was a woman’s ponytail lying on the lava,” Dr. Llewellin said. “It was really quite shocking.”
A team led by Dr. Gillies and Dr. Llewellin investigated how bundles of aligned strands of Pele’s hair might form.
https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.c...ience.html