Aurora (disambiguation)

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An aurora is a natural light display in the sky on Earth seen predominantly in the high latitudes.

Aurora may also refer to:

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Common uses

Aurora (mythology), the Roman goddess of dawn
Aurora (given name), a feminine given name (and list of people with the name)
Aurora (heraldry), the heraldic display of an aurora
Aurora on Mars, the atmospheric phenomenon on Mars

Places

Brazil

Philippines

Aurora (province), a province in the Philippines
Aurora, Isabela
Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur

Romania

Aurora, Cujmir, Mehedinți County
Cap Aurora, Mangalia, Constanța County

United States

Other places

Aurora, Victoria, Australia
Aurora, Ontario, Canada
Aurora (Turin), Italy
Aurora Cave, New Zealand
Aurora, Western Cape, South Africa
Aurora, Suriname
Aurora Island or Maéwo, Vanuatu
Aurora Islands, phantom isles (once considered near the Falklands)

Education

Aurora University, Illinois, United States
Aurora College, Northwest Territories, Canada
Aurora College (Invercargill), New Zealand
Community College of Aurora, Colorado, United States

Structures

Aurora (Spencer, Virginia), a historic home near Spencer, Patrick County, Virginia, United States
Aurora Apartment Hotel, a historic high-rise building located in San Antonio, Texas, United States
Aurora Bridge, Seattle, Washington, United States
Aurora, Dichteren, a windmill in Gelderland, Netherlands
Aurora Melbourne Central, a skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia
Aurora Place, a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia
Aurora Stadium, Launceston, Australia
Aurora Tower, a skyscraper in Brisbane, Australia
Aurora Wheel, a Ferris wheel in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Arts and entertainment

Visual arts

Aurora (Artemisia Gentileschi), a c1625-1627 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
Aurora (Reni), a 1614 Baroque ceiling fresco by Guido Reni
Aurora (sculpture), a 1992 sculpture by Mark di Suvero

Books

Prix Aurora Awards, a Canadian literature award
Aurora, a novel by Michel Leiris
Aurora, a novel by David Koepp
Aurora (novel), a 2015 novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
Aurora, an airship in the novel Airborn
Aurora-Verlag, a New York-based German language publisher co-founded in 1944 by Lion Feuchtwanger
Aurora (comics), a Marvel comics character

Periodicals

Aurora (literary journal), a literary journal published from 1821 to 1837
Aurora (newspaper), an 1899–1957 Swedish publication
Aurora de Chile, the first periodical in Chilean history
Philadelphia Aurora, a newspaper published from 1794 to 1824

Film and television

Aurora (1984 film), an Italian drama
Aurora (2006 film), a Ukrainian film
Aurora (2010 film), a Romanian crime story
Aurora (2014 film), a Chilean film
Aurora (2018 Filipino film), a Philippine film
Aurora (2018 Kyrgyz film), a Kyrgyzstani film
Aurora (TV series), a Spanish-language telenovela
"Aurora" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of Stargate Atlantis
Aurora Community Channel, an Australian TV channel
Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), the title character from the animated film Sleeping Beauty
Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty character in Once Upon a Time

Gaming

Aurora Engine, a BioWare game engine
Sega Aurora, a gaming hardware platform
Aurora, a gaming PC brand by Alienware
Aurora, the main protagonist from the role-playing video game Child of Light
The Aurora, a crashed spaceship in the survival adventure game Subnautica

Music

Works

Aurora (opera), a 1908 opera by Ettore Panizza
Aurora (tone poem), an orchestral tone poem by William Lloyd Webber

Bands and artists

Aurora (singer) (born 1996), Norwegian singer-songwriter
Aurora (Christian band), an American/British girl group
Aurora (electronic music group), a British group
Aurora (punk band), a Hungarian group
Aurora, a German dark wave band later known as Aurora Sutra

Albums

Aurora (Angela Chang album), 2004
Aurora (Antiskeptic album), 2003
Aurora (Asia album), 1986
Aurora (Aurora album), 2000
Aurora (Bada album), 2004
Aurora (Breaking Benjamin album), 2020
Aurora (Daisy Jones & the Six album), 2023
Aurora (Esmerine album), 2005
Aurora (Jean-Luc Ponty album), 1976
Aurora (Nico Touches the Walls album), 2009
Aurora (Susumu Hirasawa album), 1994
Aurora (Ben Frost album), 2014
Aurora (Bea Miller album), 2018
Aurora, a 2009 album by Avishai Cohen
Aurora, a 1995 album by Crash Vegas
Aurora, a 2013 album by Joey Moe
Aurora, a 2021 album by Humbe
Aurora, a 2023 album by Nikolija

Songs

"Aurora" (Foo Fighters song), 1999
"Aurora" (Lights Action song), 2008
"Aurora", a song by 36 Crazyfists from Rest Inside the Flames
"Aurora", a song by the Andrews Sisters
"Aurora", a song by Björk from Vespertine
"L'aurora", a song by Eros Ramazzotti from Dove c'è musica
"Aurora", a song by Gloria Trevi from De Película
"Aurora", a song by Hans Zimmer
"Aurora", a song by Lapush from Someplace Closer to Here
"Aurora", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from Aurora
- "Aurora 2", a Susumu Hirasawa remix of "Aurora" from Solar Ray
"Aurora", a song by Vanessa Mae from Storm
"Aurora", a song by Veruca Salt from Tank Girl

Organizations

Aurora (pen manufacturer), an Italian manufacturer
Aurora Cannabis, a Canadian licensed producer of medical cannabis
Aurora Energy (disambiguation), various electricity companies
Aurora Film Corporation, an Indian film production and distribution company
Aurora Flight Sciences (a.k.a. Aurora), flight research subsidiary of Boeing
Aurora Health Care, a health care system in Wisconsin, United States
Aurora Innovation, an American self-driving car company
Aurora (university network), a network of European universities
Aurora Plastics Corporation, a defunct American toy and hobby company
Aurora Productions, Hollywood, an American film production house
Aurora Publishing (Hungary), a German-Hungarian publishing company
Aurora Publishing (United States), the American subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora Publishing

Science and technology

Astronomy

94 Aurora, an asteroid
Aurora 7, the second American spacecraft to orbit the Earth
Aurora Flight Sciences (a.k.a. Aurora), flight research subsidiary of Boeing
Aurora programme, a human spaceflight programme of the European Space Agency
Aurora, an albedo feature on Mercury

Biology

Aurora (genus), a synonym of a genus of sponges
Aurora, a synonym of the moth genus Peoria (moth)
Aurora kinase, an enzyme
Aurora (grape) or Aurore, a hybrid wine grape variety

Computing

Apache Aurora, a Mesos framework for both long-running services and cron jobs
Aurora (typeface), a serif font
Mobile OS Aurora, a Russian operating system spun off from Sailfish
Aurora OS, formerly named Eeebuntu OS, a discontinued Ubuntu-based OS for netbooks
Aurora (protocol), a communications protocol from Xilinx
Aurora Generator Test, a 2007 experiment by Idaho National Laboratory
Aurora HDR, high-dynamic-range software for photography
Operation Aurora, a 2009 cyber attack
Aurora, a tablet in the NOVO7 series
Aurora, a version of the Firefox browser
AURORA, an entrant in the NIST hash function competition

High performance computing

Aurora (supercomputer), a Exascale-class supercomputer at the U.S.-based Argonne National Laboratory under development in the 2010s and 2020s
Aurora, a supercomputer produced by Eurotech
NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA, a vector processing architecture from NEC
Amazon Aurora, a high-performance database developed by Amazon

Transportation

Aerospace

Aurora (aircraft), a rumored American reconnaissance aircraft
Aurora (airline), a Russian airline
Aurora D8, an airliner concept currently under development
Lockheed CP-140 Aurora, a maritime patrol aircraft used by the Royal Canadian Air Force
Aurora Space Station, a concept for a commercial space station
Aurora Flight Sciences (a.k.a. Aurora), flight research subsidiary of Boeing

Automobiles

Aurora (1957 automobile), an American automobile
Aurora Solar Car
Oldsmobile Aurora, a full-size sedan made from 1995 to 2003

Rail

Aurora station (disambiguation), stations named Aurora
Aurora (train), a domestic Trans Europ Express in Italy
Aurora Winter Train, seasonal passenger service on the Alaska Railroad
Aurora, a South Devon Railway Comet class locomotive
Brand name to be applied to the British Rail Class 810

Road

Aurora Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in Quezon City and San Juan City, Metro Manila
Aurora Avenue, Seattle, Washington

Watercraft

List of ships named Aurora

Sports

Aurora Formula One, a motor racing championship
Aurora F.C., a Guatemalan football club
Aurora FC (Canada), a Canadian soccer club
Club Aurora, a Bolivian football club
FBC Aurora, a Peruvian football club
Aurora Seriate Calcio, a defunct Italian football club
Aurora Pro Patria 1919, an Italian football club
S.P. Aurora, a defunct Sammarinese football club

Other uses

Jagjit Singh Aurora (1916–2005), Indian soldier
Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, an international humanitarian award
Aurora Solar Thermal Power Project, a proposed solar-powered electricity generator in South Australia

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