Aurora (disambiguation)
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An aurora is a natural light display in the sky based around the polar regions.
Aurora may also refer to:
- Aurora (heraldry), the heraldic display of an aurora
- Aurora (mythology), the Roman goddess of dawn
Places
Brazil
Philippines
Romania
- Aurora, Cujmir, Mehedinţi County
- Cap Aurora, Mangalia, Constanţa County
United States
- Aurora, Arkansas
- Aurora, Stanislaus County, California
- 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, Cayuga County, New York
- Aurora, Erie County, New York
- Aurora, Nevada
- Aurora, North Carolina
- Aurora, Ohio
- Aurora, Oregon
- Aurora County, South Dakota
- Aurora, South Dakota
- Aurora, Texas
- Aurora, Utah
- Aurora Avenue, Seattle, Washington
- 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
Entertainment
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 (2015 film), a Swiss science fiction drama film
- Aurora Awards, an international film and video competition
- 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
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
Music
- Aurora (opera), a 1908 opera by Ettore Panizza
- Aurora (tone poem), an orchestral tone poem by William Lloyd Webber
- Aurora Aksnes, Norwegian singer
Bands
- 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) (2005)
- Aurora (Antiskeptic album)
- Aurora (Asia album) (1986)
- Aurora (Aurora album)
- 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)
- Aurora, an album by Avishai Cohen
- Aurora, an album by Crash Vegas
- Aurora, an album of Joey Moe
Songs
- "Aurora" (Foo Fighters song)
- "Aurora" (Lights Action song)
- "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
Fictional characters
- Aurora (character), the title character from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty
- Aurora (comics), a Marvel comics character
- Daisuke Aurora, a Heat Guy J character
- Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty character in Once Upon a Time
- Aurora, the main protagonist from the role playing game Child of Light
Literature
- Aurora (literary journal), a literary journal published from 1821 to 1837
- Aurora (planet), a world in Isaac Asimov's fiction
- Prix Aurora Awards, a Canadian literature award
- Aurora, a novel by Michel Leiris
- Aurora, an airship in the novel Airborn
- Aurora-Verlag, a New York based German language publisher co-founded in 1944 by Lion Feuchtwanger
Media
- 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
Organizations
- Aurora (pen manufacturer)
- Aurora Energy, an Australian electricity company
- Aurora Film Corporation, a film production and distribution company in India
- Aurora Flight Sciences, an US aerospace company, designing and manufacturing UAVs and aerostructures
- Aurora Health Care
- Aurora Plastics Corporation, an American toy and hobby company
- Aurora Productions, Hollywood, a film production house in US
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
Computing
- 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 to demonstrate how a cyber attack could destroy physical components of the electric grid
- 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
Sports
- Aurora Formula One, a motor racing championship
- Aurora F.C., a Guatemalan football club
- Club Aurora, a Bolivian football club
Structures
- Aurora Apartment Hotel, a historic, high-rise building located in San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Aurora Bridge, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
- Aurora Place, a skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales
- Aurora Stadium, Launceston, Tasmania
- Aurora Tower, a skyscraper in Brisbane, Queensland
- Aurora Wheel, a ferris wheel in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan
- Aurora, Dichteren, a windmill in Gelderland, Netherlands
Transportation
- 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)
- Aurora Solar Car
- Oldsmobile Aurora, launched in 1995
Rail
- Aurora (Erie Railroad station), the former train station serving the residents of Aurora, Ohio
- Aurora (Metra), a station on Metra's BNSF Railway Line in Aurora, Illinois
- 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 key ship in the October Revolution
- SY Aurora, a 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
Other uses
- Aurora (given name), a feminine given name (and list of people with the name)
- Aurora (sculpture), a sculpture by Mark di Suvero
- Aurora (grape) or Aurore, a hybrid wine grape variety
- Aurora (typeface), a serif font
- Jagjit Singh Aurora (1916–2005), Indian soldier
See also
- Aurore (disambiguation)
- Arora (disambiguation)
- Avrora (disambiguation)