Nova (disambiguation)

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A nova is an exploding star.

Nova, NOVA or N.O.V.A. may also refer to:

Places and jurisdictions

Africa

• Nova, Africa, former Ancient city and Roman bishopric, now in Tunisia and a Latin Catholic titular see

Asia

• Nova, East Azerbaijan, Iran
• Nova, Semnan, Iran

Europe

• Nõva (disambiguation), several places in Estonia
• Nova, Hungary

United States

• Nova, Ohio
• Northern Virginia

People

Cultural groups

• Nova (Hopi), see Hopi

Individuals

• Nova (singer), a Puerto Rican reggaeton and hip hop singer, part of duo Nova & Jory
• Nova (wrestler), ring name of American pro wrestler Mike Bucci
• NŌVA (born 1995), Canadian singer-songwriter
• Nova Peris (born 1971), Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician
• Aldo Nova (born 1956), Canadian musician
• Anna Nova (born 1975), German pornographic actress
• Debi Nova, stage name of Costa Rican singer-songwriter Deborah Nowalski Kader (born 1980)
• Erika Nõva (1905–1987), Estonian architect
• Heather Nova (born 1967), Bermudan singer, songwriter and poet
• Iván Nova (born 1987), Dominican baseball player
• Nova Pilbeam (1919-2015), British actress

Art, entertainment and media

Fictitious entities

• Nova (Sam Alexander), a Marvel Comics Superhero, the teenage member of the Nova Corps
• Nova (fairy), a fictional character on the U.S. TV series Once Upon a Time
• Nova (Planet of the Apes), a fictional character in Planet of the Apes
• Nova (Frankie Raye), a Marvel Comics superhero and a Herald of Galactus
• Nova (Richard Rider), a Marvel Comics superhero, the original Nova and leader of the Nova Corps
• Nova (Ultra monster)
• Nova, a Magic Knight Rayearth character
• Nova, the radar operator aboard the spaceship Argo from the U.S. adaptation of the Japanese anime series Star Blazers
• Cassandra Nova, a Marvel Comics villain
• Nova 6, a fictional biochemical weapon in Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Nova Satori, a Robotech character
• Nova Terra, a Starcraft character
• Prime Nova, a Transformers character

Games

• N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance, a 2009 video game

Literature

• Nova (novel), by Samuel R. Delany
• Nova 1 through Nova 4, anthologies of original science fiction edited by Harry Harrison
• The Nova Trilogy, a series of novels by William S. Burroughs

Music

Groups

• Nova (Bangladeshi band), a psychedelic, progressive and hard rock band in Bangladesh, formed in 1986 in Dhaka
• Nova (Dutch band), a Dutch electronic music band featuring Rob Papen, also known as Peru
• Nova (Italian band), an Italian progressive rock/jazz fusion band formed in 1975
• Nova (Swedish band), a Swedish pop music band, previously known as Malta that participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973

Albums and songs

• Nova (Atargatis album), 2007
• Nova (Rajaton album), 2000
• "Nova" (The Sound of Arrows song), the second single by Swedish duo The Sound of Arrows
• "Nova" (Ahrix song), 2016

Periodicals

• Nova (magazine), a monthly feminine magazine published by Abril and part of the international Cosmopolitan group
• Nova (UK magazine), a British magazine, 1965–75

Radio

• Nova (radio network), a group of Australian radio stations
• Nova M Radio, an American radio network
• Radio Nova (disambiguation), several radio stations

Television

Channels and stations

• Nova (TV channel), Spanish private television channel owned by Atresmedia
• Nova TV (disambiguation), various stations
• TV Nova (Czech Republic), Czech private television channel owned by CME

Series

• Nova (Dutch TV series), a current-events program
• Nova (TV series), an American science series

Companies

• NOVA, former name of credit card transaction firm Elavon
• Air Nova, a Canadian airline from 1986 to 2001
• Nova Airways, a passenger airline based in Khartoum, Sudan, founded in 2000
• Nova Bus, a Canadian bus manufacturer
• Nova Chemicals, a company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• NOVA Entertainment, an Australian company

Organizations

• New Majority (Slovakia), a Slovakian political party
• New Serb Democracy, a Montenegrin political party
• Nova – Center for Social Innovation
• Nova Group (metros), a group of small to medium-sized metro rail systems in the Community of Metros
• NOVA-MBA Association, the global association of Italian MBAs

Science and technology

• Nova (laser), high-power laser built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1984
• Nova (operating system), a Cuban state-sponsored Linux distribution
• Nova (rocket), a series of proposed rocket designs
• Nova, a high-altitude ballooning project by CU Spaceflight
• NOνA, a particle physics neutrino experiment in Fermilab
• Data General Nova, a minicomputer first built in 1969
• OpenStack Nova, a distributed computing component

Cars

• Nova (kit car)
• Chevrolet Nova, an American car produced 1962–1979 and 1985–1988
• Dacia Nova, a Romanian car produced 1995–2000
• Holden Nova, an Australian car produced 1989–1996
• Lada Nova, a Russian car produced 1982–present
• Vauxhall Nova, a British car produced 1982–1993

Schools

United States

• Northern Virginia Community College, Virginia, also known as NoVa
• Nova High School (Redding, California), a public high school from 1967 to 1991
• Nova High School, Florida
• Nova Southeastern University, Florida
• The Nova Project, an alternative high school in Washington
• Villanova University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sometimes referred to as 'Nova
  • Villanova Wildcats, the school's sports teams, also sometimes called 'Nova

Elsewhere

• Nova (eikaiwa), an English language conversation school in Japan
• New University of Lisbon, Portugal, also known as Nova

Other uses

• Nova, plural form of the Latin novum
• Benelli Nova, a pump action shotgun
• Nova Institution for Women, a Canadian federal women's prison
• Nova Scotia salmon or Nova lox, a variant of lox
• SS Nova, a Cypriot cargo ship in service 1969–1971

See also

• All pages beginning with "nova"
• All pages with a title containing nova
• Novas (disambiguation)
• Novak
• Nõva (disambiguation)
• Nove (disambiguation)
• Novi (disambiguation)
• Novo (disambiguation)
• Novus (disambiguation)