Author: Natasha Frost / Source: Atlas Obscura
Hawaii’s Big Island recently got a little bit hairier. Golden filaments resembling human hair measuring up to two feet in length are draped across parts of the island—an unusual effect of the ongoing eruption from Kīlauea volcano.
These strands may look like biological matter, but they’re actually made of glass. Known as Pele’s hair, or goddess hair, the fibers are produced when gas bubbles within lava burst at its surface, reports Live Science.“The skin of the bursting bubbles flies out, and some of the skin becomes stretched into these very long threads,” Don Swanson,…
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