Aurora

Aurora most commonly refers to:


 * Aurora (astronomy), a natural light display in the sky
 * Aurora (mythology), the Roman goddess of dawn

Aurora may also refer to:

Education

 * Aurora University, Illinois, United States
 * Aurora College, Northwest Territories, Canada
 * Aurora College (Invercargill), New Zealand
 * Community College of Aurora, Colorado, United States

Film and television

 * Aurora (1984 film), an Italian drama
 * Aurora (2006 film), a Ukrainian film
 * Aurora (2010 film), a Romanian crime story
 * 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 (Disney), the title character from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty
 * Aurora Community Channel, an Australian TV channel
 * Daisuke Aurora, a Heat Guy J character

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

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

Songs

 * "Aurora" (Foo Fighters song)
 * "Aurora" (Lights Action song)
 * "Aurora", a song by 36 Crazyfists from Rest Inside the Flames
 * "Aurora", a song by Björk from Vespertine
 * "Aurora", a song by Hans Zimmer in response to the 2012 Aurora shooting
 * "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 The Andrews Sisters
 * "Aurora", a song by Vanessa Mae from Storm
 * "Aurora", a song by Veruca Salt from Tank Girl

Literature

 * Aurora (comics), a Marvel comics character
 * 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
 * Philadelphia Aurora, a newspaper published from 1794 to 1824

Organisation

 * Aurora (pen manufacturer)
 * Aurora Energy, an Australian electricity company
 * Aurora Health Care
 * Aurora Plastics Corporation, an American toy and hobby company
 * Aurora Flight Sciences, an US aerospace company, designing and manufacturing UAVs and aerostructures

Countries with just one of them

 * 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)

Brazil

 * Aurora, Ceará
 * Aurora, Santa Catarina

Philippines

 * Aurora (province)
 * Aurora, Isabela
 * Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur

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

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 and internet

 * Aurora (operating system), a netbook OS based on Ubuntu
 * Aurora (protocol), a communications protocol
 * Aurora SPARC Linux, a Linux distribution
 * Aurora, a tablet in the NOVO7 series
 * Aurora, a version of the Firefox browser
 * AURORA, an entrant in the NIST hash function competition
 * Operation Aurora, a 2009 cyber attack

Sport

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

Structure

 * 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

Transportation

 * Aurora (aircraft), a rumored American reconnaissance aircraft
 * 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, a South Devon Railway Comet class locomotive

Watercraft

 * HMS Aurora, several Royal Navy ships
 * MV Aurora, several Motor Vessels
 * Russian cruiser Aurora, a key ship in the October Revolution
 * SS Aurora, several steamships
 * 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

Other uses

 * Aurora (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

People with the surname

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