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:

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

• Aurora, Ceará
• Aurora, Santa Catarina

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

• Aurora, Arkansas
• Aurora, Colorado
• Aurora, Illinois
• Aurora, Indiana
• Aurora, Iowa
• Aurora, Kansas
• Aurora, Kentucky
• Aurora, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Aurora, Maine
• Aurora, Minnesota
• Aurora Township, Steele County, Minnesota
• Aurora, Missouri
• Aurora, Nebraska
• Aurora, Nevada
• Aurora, Cayuga County, New York
• Aurora, Erie County, New York
• Aurora, North Carolina
• Aurora, Ohio
• Aurora, Oregon
• Aurora County, South Dakota
• Aurora, South Dakota
• Aurora, Texas
• Aurora, Utah
• Aurora, West Virginia
• Aurora, Florence County, Wisconsin, a town
• Aurora (community), Florence County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Aurora, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
• Aurora, Taylor County, Wisconsin
• Aurora, Washington County, Wisconsin
• Aurora, Waushara County, Wisconsin

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
• Zenvo Aurora, a Danish sports car

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

See also

Search for "aurora" on Wikipedia.

• All pages with titles containing aurora or auroras
• All pages with titles beginning with Aurora
• La Aurora (disambiguation)
• Aurora Airport (disambiguation)
• Aurora station (disambiguation)
• Aurore (disambiguation)
• Arora (disambiguation)
• Avrora (disambiguation)

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