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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2018
The Hubble Space Telescope observations showed that some nova outbursts may not produce smooth shells of gas, but thousands of gaseous blobs. In the case of T Pyx the blobs are distributed in eight concentric circles around the exploding star, producing a pattern similar to tree rings. We explore here the formation of the tree rings by hydrodynamical simulations.