Aurora (disambiguation)

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

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

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

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 Gaming, a Serbian esports organization
 * 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

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 on Mars, an atmospheric phenomenon on Mars
 * 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

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