Aurora (disambiguation)

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

Aurora may also refer to:

Geography

Brazil

Philippines

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

Romania

Aurora, Cujmir, Mehedinţi County
Cap Aurora, Mangalia, Constanţa 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
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 under construction (expected completion in 2019) 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 (Guido Reni), a 1614 Baroque ceiling fresco by Guido Reni
Aurora (sculpture), a 1992 sculpture by Mark di Suvero

Books

Aurora (literary journal), a literary journal published from 1821 to 1837
Aurora (fictional planet), a world in Isaac Asimov's fiction
Prix Aurora Awards, a Canadian literature award
Aurora, a novel by Michel Leiris
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 (newspaper), an 1899–1957 Swedish publication
Aurora de Chile, the first periodical in Chilean history
Philadelphia Aurora, a newspaper published from 1794 to 1824
Aurora (comics), a Marvel comics character

Film and television

Aurora (1984 film), an Italian drama
Aurora (1998 film), a US science-fiction adventure film
Aurora (2006 film), a Ukrainian film
Aurora (2010 film), a Romanian crime story
Aurora (2014 film), a Chilean film
Aurora (telenovela)
"Aurora" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of Stargate Atlantis
- Aurora class battleship, a ship in the Stargate franchise
Aurora Community Channel, an Australian TV channel
Aurora (Disney character), the title character from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty
Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty character in Once Upon a Time

Gaming

Aurora Engine, a BioWare game engine
Aurora toolset, a toolkit used with the Aurora Engine
Aurora Unit, an element of the game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Sega Aurora, a gaming hardware platform
Aurora, a gaming PC brand by Alienware
Aurora, the main protagonist from the role playing game Child of Light

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 pop singer
Aurora (Christian band), an American/British girl group
Aurora (electronica band), 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 (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, an album by Avishai Cohen
Aurora, an album by Crash Vegas
Aurora, an album of Joey Moe

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 Energy, an Australian electricity company
Aurora Film Corporation, an Indian film production and distribution company
Aurora Flight Sciences, an American aerospace company, designing and manufacturing UAVs and aerostructures
Aurora Health Care
Aurora Plastics Corporation, an American toy and hobby company
Aurora Productions, Hollywood, an Amercan film production house

Science and technology

Astronomy

94 Aurora, an asteroid
Aurora 7, a nickname for the Mercury-Atlas 7, the second American spacecraft to orbit the earth
Aurora Flight Sciences, an American aerospace company
Aurora programme, a human spaceflight programme of the European Space Agency
Aurora, an albedo feature on Mercury

Biology

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

Computing

Aurora (typeface), a serif font
Aurora (operating system), a netbook OS based on Ubuntu
Aurora (protocol), a communications protocol from Xilinx
Aurora database analytics engine, a high-performance database developed by Amazon
Aurora Generator Test, a 2007 experiment by Idaho National Laboratory
Aurora SPARC Linux, a Linux distribution
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

Transportation

Aircraft

Aurora (aircraft), a rumored American reconnaissance aircraft
Aurora (airline), a Russian airline
Lockheed CP-140 Aurora, a maritime patrol aircraft used by the Royal Canadian Air Force

Automobiles

Aurora (1957 automobile), an American automobile
Aurora Solar Car
Oldsmobile Aurora, launched in 1995

Rail

Aurora station (disambiguation), stations of the name
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

Watercraft

Russian cruiser Aurora, a 1900 key ship in the October Revolution
SY Aurora, an 1876 steam yacht used for Antarctic exploration that made several Antarctic expeditions
USS Aurora (SP-345), a U.S. Navy tug and minesweeper
HMS Aurora, several Royal Navy ships
MV Aurora, several Motor Vessels
SS Aurora, several steamships

Sports

Aurora Formula One, a motor racing championship
Aurora F.C., a Guatemalan football club
Club Aurora, a Bolivian football club

Other 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
Jagjit Singh Aurora (1916–2005), Indian soldier