aurora An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), also commonly known as the polar lights, is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of bri ...

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) Aurōra () is the Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry. Like Greek ''Eos'' and Rigvedic ''Ushas'', ''Aurōra'' continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, '' Hausos''. Name Aurōra st ...

, the Roman goddess of dawn *

Aurora (given name) Aurora is a feminine given name, originating from the name of the ancient Roman goddess of dawn Aurora.Petrovsky, p. 36 Her tears were said to turn into the morning dew. Each morning she traveled in her chariot across the sky from east to west ...

, a feminine given name (and list of people with the name) *

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, the heraldic display of an aurora

Places

Brazil

* Aurora, Ceará * Aurora, Santa Catarina

Philippines

Aurora (province) Aurora, officially the Province of Aurora ( fil, Lalawigan ng Aurora; ilo, Probinsia ti Aurora), is a province in the Philippines located in the eastern part of Central Luzon region, facing the Philippine Sea. Its capital is Baler and borders, cl ...

, a province in the Philippines *

Aurora, Isabela Aurora, officially the Municipality of Aurora ( ilo, Ili ti Aurora; tl, Bayan ng Aurora), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Isabela, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 36,621 people. Geography Barang ...

Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur Aurora, officially the Municipality of Aurora ( ceb, Lungsod sa Aurora; Subanen: ''Benwa Aurora''; Chavacano: ''Municipalidad de Aurora''; tl, Bayan ng Aurora), is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. Accor ...

Romania

* Aurora, Cujmir, Mehedinți County *

Cap Aurora Cap Aurora is a small Romanian summer-time seaside resort in the Mangalia municipality, Constanța County. It is located between the neighbouring resorts of Jupiter and Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is sometimes called ...

, Mangalia, Constanța County

United States

Aurora, Arkansas Aurora is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Madison County, Arkansas, Madison County, Arkansas, United States. It is located south of Huntsville, Arkansas, Huntsville at the junction of Arkansas Highway 127, AR 127 and Arkansas H ...

Aurora, Colorado Aurora (, ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Arapahoe, Adams County, Colorado, Adams, and Douglas County, Colorado, Douglas List of counties in Colorado, ...

Aurora, Illinois Aurora is a city in the Chicago metropolitan area located partially in DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage, Kane County, Illinois, Kane, Kendall County, Illinois, Kendall, and Will County, Illinois, Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. Locat ...

Aurora, Indiana Aurora is a city in Center Township, Dearborn County, Indiana, United States. The population was 3,750 at the 2010 census. Geography Aurora is located at (39.058551, -84.906351). According to the 2010 census, Aurora has a total area of , of wh ...

Aurora, Iowa Aurora is a city in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States. The population was 169 in the 2020 census, a decline from 194 in 2000. Aurora was founded in 1886 by the Chicago Great Western Railway, and incorporated in 1899. The town was laid out on ...

* Aurora, Kansas *

Aurora, Kentucky Aurora is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Kentucky, United States. Aurora is located near Kentucky Lake Kentucky Lake is a major navigable reservoir along the Tennessee River in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was created in 1944 by ...

Aurora, New Orleans Aurora is a community of Algiers in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is divided into three areas: Old Aurora, Walnut Bend, and Huntlee Village. From the 1950s, the original name of the Old Aurora neighborhood was ''Aurora Gardens''. The residential su ...

, Louisiana *

Aurora, Maine Aurora is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The town was named for the goddess of dawn. The population was 93 at the 2020 census. The Brick School House, an historic schoolhouse, is located in Aurora. It was built in 1827 and is ...

Aurora, Minnesota Aurora is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,682 at the 2010 census. Saint Louis County Highways 100 and 110 and State Highway 135 are three of the main routes in Aurora. History Aurora was laid ou ...

Aurora Township, Steele County, Minnesota Aurora Township is a township in Steele County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 625 at the 2000 census. Aurora Township was organized in 1857, and named after Aurora, Illinois. Geography According to the United States Census Burea ...

Aurora, Missouri Aurora is a city in Lawrence County, Missouri, Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 7,432. History The Honey Creek area, near Aurora was originally settled by p ...

Aurora, Nebraska Aurora is a city in Hamilton County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 4,479 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Hamilton County. History In 1861, David Millspaw became the first permanent settler in the area of what was to ...

Aurora, Nevada Aurora is a ghost town in Mineral County in the west central part of the US state of Nevada, approximately southwest of the town of Hawthorne, three miles from the California border. Today the townsite is much diminished, having been damaged ...

Aurora, Cayuga County, New York Aurora, or Aurora-on-Cayuga, is a village and college town in the town of Ledyard, Cayuga County, New York, United States, on the shore of Cayuga Lake. The village had a population of 724 at the 2010 census. Wells College, an institution of h ...

Aurora, Erie County, New York Aurora is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 13,782 at the 2010 census. It is one of the "Southtowns" of Erie County and is also erroneously called "East Aurora", the name of its principal village. The town is cen ...

Aurora, North Carolina Aurora is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 520 at the 2010 Census. Geography Aurora is located at (35.301476, -76.789461). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , ...

Aurora, Ohio Aurora is a city in Portage County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, and is co-extensive with, and formed from, the former township of Aurora, which was formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve. It is part of ...

Aurora, Oregon Aurora is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. Before being incorporated as a city, it was the location of the Aurora Colony, a religious commune founded in 1856 by William Keil and John E. Schmit. William named the settlement after h ...

Aurora County, South Dakota Aurora County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,747. The county was created in 1879, and was organized in 1881. History Aurora County, named for Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn, w ...

Aurora, South Dakota Aurora is a town in Brookings County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,047 at the 2020 census. History Aurora was platted in 1880. It was named after Aurora, Illinois, by a settler from that place. Geography According to the ...

Aurora, Texas Aurora is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,390 in 2020. Geography Aurora is located at (33.055942, –97.509615). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demogra ...

Aurora, Utah Aurora is a city in north-central Sevier County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,016 at the 2010 census. Aurora is predominantly supported by agriculture, coal mining, and the service sector. Most residents commute to one of the neig ...

Aurora, West Virginia Aurora is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southeastern Preston County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 201. Aurora is located on U.S. Route 50 between the Maryland state line and t ...

Aurora, Florence County, Wisconsin Aurora is a town in Florence County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,186 at the 2000 census. Aurora lies on the Michigan-Wisconsin border, across the Menominee River from Kingsford, Michigan. Aurora Aurora is a community within ...

, a town * Aurora (community), Florence County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Aurora, Kenosha County, Wisconsin * Aurora, Taylor County, Wisconsin *

Aurora, Washington County, Wisconsin Addison is a town in Washington County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,341 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Addison, Allenton, Aurora, Nenno, and Saint Anthony are located with the town. The unincorporate ...

* Aurora, Waushara County, Wisconsin

Other places

Aurora, Victoria Aurora is a housing estate in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia designed to provide homes with higher levels of energy and water efficiency. The plan is to build it over 15 years and to have 8500 residences. Location Aurora is now located partly w ...

, Australia *

Aurora, Ontario Aurora ( 2021 population: 62,057) is a town in central York Region in the Greater Toronto Area, within the Golden Horseshoe of Southern Ontario, Canada. It is located north of the City of Richmond Hill and is partially situated on the Oak Ridges ...

, Canada *

Aurora (Turin) Aurora is an historical district in the city of Turin, Italy. This neighborhood is divided into wards, which are distinctive one from another. The district includes: * Porta Palazzo quarter has the biggest European open market (''Mercato di Porta ...

, Italy * Aurora Cave, New Zealand *

Aurora, Western Cape Aurora is a town on the west coast of South Africa situated 43 kilometres north-west of Piketberg Piketberg (also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past) is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa, located about 80 km east of Saldanha Bay. The ...

, South Africa *

Aurora, Suriname Aurora is a town in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname on the Upper Suriname River. Aurora is a tribal village, and has a twin village called Nieuw Aurora which was built as an extension. The village is home to Maroons of the Saramaka tribe. T ...

* Aurora Island or Maéwo, Vanuatu *

Aurora Islands The Aurora Islands was a group of three phantom islands first reported in 1762 by the Spanish merchant ship ''Aurora'' while sailing from Lima to Cadiz. The Aurora's officers reported sighting them again in 1774. The Spanish ship ''San Miguel'' ...

, phantom isles (once considered near the Falklands)

Education

Aurora University Aurora University (AU) is a private university in Aurora, Illinois. In addition to its main campus and the Orchard Center in Aurora, AU offers programs online, at its George Williams College campus in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and at the Woodsto ...

, Illinois, United States *

Aurora College Aurora College, formerly Arctic College, is a college located in the Northwest Territories, Canada with campuses in Inuvik, Fort Smith and Yellowknife. They have learning centres in 23 communities in the NWT. The head office for Aurora Colleg ...

, Northwest Territories, Canada *

Aurora College (Invercargill) Aurora College is a state coeducational Year 7–13 secondary school located in Invercargill, New Zealand. It is New Zealand's southernmost stand-alone secondary school, and second southernmost secondary school after The Catlins Area School in O ...

, New Zealand *

Community College of Aurora The Community College of Aurora (CCA) is a public community college in Aurora, Colorado. It is part of the Colorado Community College System. CCA serves over 10,000 students annually at its CentreTech Campus in Aurora; Lowry Campus at the former ...

, Colorado, United States

Structures

Aurora (Spencer, Virginia) Aurora, also known as the Pink House, Boxwood, and the Penn Homestead, is a historic home located at Penn's Store near Spencer, Patrick County, Virginia. It was built between 1853 and 1856, and is a two-story, three-bay, hipped-roof frame house ...

, 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 The Aurora Bridge (officially called the George Washington Memorial Bridge) is a cantilever and truss bridge in Seattle, Washington, United States. It carries State Route 99 ( Aurora Avenue North) over the west end of Seattle's Lake Union and ...

, Seattle, Washington, United States * Aurora, Dichteren, a windmill in Gelderland, Netherlands *

Aurora Melbourne Central Aurora Melbourne Central is a high residential skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia. It is Melbourne's third-tallest building and the fifth tallest building in Australia. Developed by Malaysian–based UEM Sunrise and designed by Elenberg Fr ...

, a skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia *

Aurora Place Aurora Place is a commercial skyscraper and residential block on Phillip Street in Sydney, Australia. Designed by Renzo Piano, the 41-storey building stands at a height of high to the top of the spire and to the roof. The building has an unu ...

, a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia *

Aurora Stadium York Park is a sports ground in the Inveresk and York Park Precinct, Launceston, Australia. Holding 19,000 people – the largest capacity stadium in Tasmania, York Park is known commercially as University of Tasmania Stadium and was formerly ...

, Launceston, Australia *

Aurora Tower Aurora Tower is a skyscraper in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is 207 metres tall and was the tallest building in Brisbane from 2006 until being surpassed by Soleil in 2011. Aurora has 69 storeys comprising four floors of 18 penthouses, 54 ...

, a skyscraper in Brisbane, Australia * Aurora Wheel, a Ferris wheel in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Arts and entertainment

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 The Aurora Awards (french: Prix Aurora-Boréal) are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year."Literary glow of Auroras lure ...

, a Canadian literature award * ''Aurora'', a novel by

Michel Leiris Julien Michel Leiris (; 20 April 1901 in Paris – 30 September 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, Essonne) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. Part of the Surrealist group in Paris, Leiris became a key member of the College of Sociology with G ...

* ''Aurora'', a novel by

David Koepp David Koepp (; born June 9, 1963) is an American filmmaker. Koepp is the ninth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts with a total gross of over $2.3 billion. Koepp has achieved both critical and commercial ...

* ''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 Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Ju ...

Aurora (comics) Aurora (french: Aurore) (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, the character first appeared in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' ...

, 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 ''Aurora de Chile'' (English: ''Dawn of Chile'') was the first periodical in Chilean history and mostly dealt with politics and political philosophy. It was in print from Thursday, February 13, 1812, to Thursday, April 1, 1813, at which point i ...

'', the first periodical in Chilean history * ''

Philadelphia Aurora The ''Philadelphia Aurora'' was published six days a week in Philadelphia from 1794 to 1824. The paper was founded by Benjamin Franklin Bache, who served as editor until his death in 1798. It is sometimes referred to as the ''Aurora General Adver ...

'', 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 Aurora Community Channel is an Australian subscription television channel that screens locally produced community television programs. Launched in 2005 on Foxtel, it is currently on channel 173, prior to the launch of Christian channels on Foxte ...

, an Australian TV channel *

Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) Princess Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose, is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' 16th animated feature film ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1959). Originally voiced by singer Mary Costa, Aurora is the only ...

, the title character from the animated film ''Sleeping Beauty'' * Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty character in ''

Once Upon a Time "Once upon a time" is a stock phrase used to introduce a narrative of past events, typically in fairy tales and folk tales. It has been used in some form since at least 1380 (according to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'') in storytelling in the ...

Gaming

* Aurora Engine, a BioWare game engine *

Sega Aurora Sega is a video game developer, publisher, and hardware development company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with multiple offices around the world. The company's involvement in the arcade game industry began as a Japan-based distributor of coi ...

, a gaming hardware platform * Aurora, a gaming PC brand by

Alienware Alienware is an American computer hardware subsidiary of Dell. Their product range is dedicated to gaming computers which can be identified by their alien-themed designs. Alienware was founded in 1996 by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila, and is ...

* Aurora, the main protagonist from the role-playing video game ''

Child of Light ''Child of Light'' is a platform game, platforming role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in April 2014, and was released on PlayStati ...

'' * The ''Aurora'', a crashed spaceship in the survival adventure game ''

Subnautica ''Subnautica'' is an open-world action-adventure game developed and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. The game has the player as a non-essential systems maintenance chief who is the only survivor of a spaceship crash on the alien planet ...

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) Aurora Aksnes (born 15 June 1996), known mononymously as Aurora (stylized in all caps), is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and record producer. Born in Stavanger and raised in the towns of Høle and Os, she began writing her first songs and lear ...

(born 1996), Norwegian singer-songwriter *

Aurora (Christian band) Aurora was an American Christian girl group that was made up of sisters Lauren, Racquel and Rachel Smith from Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a ...

, an American/British girl group *

Aurora (electronic music group) Aurora, also known as Aurora UK, are a British electronic dance music group, consisting of keyboardist/guitarist Sacha Collisson (born 14 November 1970) and fellow keyboardist Simon Greenaway (born 4 July 1969). Discography Albums Singles * ...

, a British group *

Aurora (punk band) Aurora is a Punk rock, punk band formed in Győr, Hungary in 1983. Early history Aurora Cirkáló was founded in Győr, Hungary by the young local punks “Vigi” (guitar vocals), “Galacs” (bass), “Polyak” (drums) and “Dauer” (vocal ...

, 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 Crash Vegas was a Canadian folk rock band which formed in 1988, and achieved moderate success in the early 1990s. Biography The band was formed by Michelle McAdorey and Greg Keelor of Blue Rodeo in 1988, who were also in a romantic relationship. ...

* ''Aurora'', a 2013 album by

Joey Moe Joey Lanni Moe Lynghave (born 8 June 1985) is a Danish singer and producer. During his career, he has collaborated with a number of other Danish artists. Career Joey Moe graduated from Sankt Annae Gymnasium (high school) in 2004. In 1996, when ...

* ''Aurora'', a 2021 album by Humbe * ''Aurora'', a 2023 album by

Nikolija Nikolija Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Николија Јовановић, born on 19 October 1989) is a Serbian singer and rapper. Born in Zagreb and raised in Belgrade, she is the daughter of singer Vesna Zmijanac. Nikolija initially gained prominence ...

Songs

* "Aurora" (Foo Fighters song), 1999 * "Aurora" (Lights Action song), 2008 * "Aurora", a song by 36 Crazyfists from ''

Rest Inside the Flames ''Rest Inside the Flames'' is the third album by American metalcore band 36 Crazyfists. It was released in Australia on June 10, 2006 and in Europe and the UK on June 12, 2006. The album was released in the US on November 7 via the band's new ...

'' * "Aurora", a song by

the Andrews Sisters The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the Swing music, swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews (July 6, 1911 – May 8, 1967), soprano Maxene Anglyn Andre ...

* "Aurora", a song by Björk from ''

Vespertine ''Vespertine'' is the fourth studio album by Icelandic recording artist Björk. It was released on 27 August 2001 in the United Kingdom by One Little Independent Records and in the United States by Elektra Entertainment. Production on the album ...

'' * "L'aurora", a song by Eros Ramazzotti from ''

Dove c'è musica ''Dove c'è musica'' (''Where There Is Music'') is the seventh studio album by Italian pop/rock singer Eros Ramazzotti, released in 1996 on the BMG label. It is Ramazzotti's first self-produced album and the first without any involvement from ...

'' * "Aurora", a song by Gloria Trevi from ''

De Película De Película is a 24-hour cable television movie channel owned by TelevisaUnivision under Televisa Networks. It is available in Mexico, the United States, and Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik ...

'' * "Aurora", a song by

Hans Zimmer Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Academy Awards, Oscars and four Grammy Awards, Grammys, and has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmys and a Tony Awar ...

* "Aurora", a song by Lapush from ''

Someplace Closer to Here ''Someplace Closer To Here'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Lapush. It was released on June 7, 2005 through 456 and Fontana/Universal Universal is the adjective for universe. Universal may also refer to: Companies * NBCUniver ...

'' * "Aurora", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from ''

Aurora An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), also commonly known as the polar lights, is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of bri ...

'' ** "Aurora 2", a Susumu Hirasawa remix of "Aurora" from ''

Solar Ray ''Solar Ray'' (stylized and subtitled as ''SOLAR RAY Hirasawa best recycling album Recycled by P-MODEL kernel'') is a 2001 remix album by Susumu Hirasawa. It is the centerpiece of "Hirasawa Energy Works", a project to produce music in an ecologica ...

'' * "Aurora", a song by Vanessa Mae from ''

Storm A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere An atmosphere () is a layer of gas or layers of gases that envelop a planet, and is held in place by the gravity of the planetary body. A planet retains an atmos ...

'' * "Aurora", a song by Veruca Salt from ''

Tank Girl ''Tank Girl'' is a British comic book character created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, and first appeared in print in 1988 in the British comics magazine ''Deadline''. After a period of intense popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, ...

Organizations

Aurora (pen manufacturer) Aurora is an Italian manufacturer of fine writing instruments, fountain pens, paper and leather goods, founded in 1919 by wealthy textile merchant Isaia Levi. The company's products represent the first true Italian fountain pens and are still cu ...

, an Italian manufacturer *

Aurora Cannabis Aurora Cannabis Inc. is a Canadian licensed cannabis producer, headquartered in Edmonton. It trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Nasdaq as ACB. As of late September 2018, Aurora Cannabis had eight licensed production facilities, five sales l ...

, a Canadian licensed producer of medical cannabis * Aurora Energy (disambiguation), various electricity companies *

Aurora Film Corporation Aurora Film Corporation is a film production company based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and primarily involved in producing Bengali films. Aurora has produced and distributed several landmark Bengali-language films including Satyajit Ray's Pa ...

, an Indian film production and distribution company *

Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences is an American aviation and aeronautics research subsidiary of Boeing which primarily specializes in the design and construction of special-purpose Unmanned aerial vehicles. Aurora has been established for 20+ years and th ...

(a.k.a. Aurora), flight research subsidiary of Boeing * Aurora Gaming, a Serbian esports organization *

Aurora Health Care Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) is a non-profit health care system with dual headquarters located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Downers Grove, Illinois. As of 2021, the AAH system has 26 hospitals and more than 500 sites of care, with 75,000 em ...

, a health care system in Wisconsin, United States *

Aurora Innovation Aurora Innovation, Inc., doing business as Aurora, is an American self-driving vehicle technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in Mountain View, California. Aurora is known for developing the Aurora Driver, a computer system that ...

, an American self-driving car company * Aurora (university network), a network of European universities *

Aurora Plastics Corporation The Aurora Plastics Corporation was an American toy and hobby manufacturing company. It is known primarily for its production of plastic scale models of cars, airplanes, and TV and movie figures in the 1960s. Its principal competition in modelin ...

, a defunct American toy and hobby company *

Aurora Productions, Hollywood Aurora Productions was a film production company established in Hollywood, California in 1978 by former executives of The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and ...

, an American film production house * Aurora Publishing (Hungary), a German-Hungarian publishing company *

Aurora Publishing (United States) Aurora Publishing, Inc. was the American subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora Publishing, the leading ''josei'' manga publisher in Japan. Headquartered in Torrance, California, it licensed and published Japanese manga for the North America ...

, the American subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora Publishing

Science and technology

Astronomy

* 94 Aurora, an asteroid * ''

Aurora 7 Mercury-Atlas 7, launched May 24, 1962, was the fourth crewed flight of Project Mercury. The spacecraft, named ''Aurora 7'', was piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter. He was the sixth human to fly in space. The mission used Mercury spacecraft No ...

'', the second American spacecraft to orbit the Earth *

(a.k.a. Aurora), flight research subsidiary of Boeing *

Aurora on Mars In 1994, the European Space Agency's Mars Express found an ultraviolet glow coming from "magnetic umbrellas" in the Southern Hemisphere. Mars does not have a global magnetic field which guides charged particles entering the atmosphere. Mars has mult ...

, 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 Aurora kinases are serine/threonine kinases that are essential for cell proliferation. They are phosphotransferase enzymes that help the dividing cell dispense its genetic materials to its daughter cells. More specifically, Aurora kinases play a c ...

, 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) Aurora is a serif typeface, designed by Jackson Burke (the successor to Chauncey H. Griffith at Mergenthaler Linotype) in 1960. The font is a darker derivative of the Corona typeface, initially designed for the Canada NewsWire. The News 706 type ...

, a serif font * Mobile OS Aurora, a Russian operating system spun off from

Sailfish The sailfish is one or two species of marine fish in the genus ''Istiophorus'', which belong to the family Istiophoridae (marlins). They are predominantly blue to gray in colour and have a characteristically large dorsal fin known as the sa ...

* Aurora OS, formerly named Eeebuntu OS, a discontinued Ubuntu-based OS for netbooks *

Aurora (protocol) The Aurora Protocol is a data link layer, link layer communications protocol for use on point-to-point serial communications, serial links. Developed by Xilinx, it is intended for use in high-speed (gigabits/second and more) connections internally i ...

, a communications protocol from Xilinx * Aurora Generator Test, a 2007 experiment by Idaho National Laboratory *

Aurora HDR Aurora HDR is photography, photographic computer program, software developed by Skylum Software (formerly MacPhun, Macphun) for MacOS, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, Windows. It attempted to create a powerful and simple yet fast HDR photo editin ...

, high-dynamic-range software for photography *

Operation Aurora Operation Aurora was a series of cyber attacks conducted by advanced persistent threats such as the Elderwood Group based in Beijing, China, with ties to the People's Liberation Army. First publicly disclosed by Google on January 12, 2010, in a ...

, a 2009 cyber attack * Aurora, a tablet in the

NOVO7 The NOVO7 is a series of Android tablet computers manufactured by the Chinese company Ainol Electronics.Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and ...

browser * AURORA, an entrant in the

NIST hash function competition The NIST hash function competition was an open competition held by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a new hash function called SHA-3 to complement the older SHA-1 and SHA-2. The competition was formally ann ...

High performance computing

Aurora (supercomputer) Aurora is a planned supercomputer to be completed in 2023. It will be the United States' second exascale computer after the AMD-powered Frontier-supercomputer. It is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and designed by Int ...

, a

Exascale Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least "1018 IEEE 754 Double Precision (64-bit) operations (multiplications and/or additions) per second (exaFLOPS)"; it is a measure of supercomputer performance. Exascale ...

-class supercomputer at the U.S.-based

Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory is a science and engineering research United States Department of Energy National Labs, national laboratory operated by University of Chicago, UChicago Argonne LLC for the United States Department of Energy. The facil ...

under development in the 2010s and 2020s * Aurora, a supercomputer produced by Eurotech *

NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA The NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA is a vector processor of the NEC SX architecture family. Unlike previous SX supercomputers, the SX-Aurora TSUBASA is provided as a PCIe card, termed by NEC as a "Vector Engine" (VE). Eight VE cards can be inserted into a v ...

, a vector processing architecture from NEC *

Amazon Aurora Amazon Aurora is a relational database service developed and offered by Amazon Web Services beginning in October 2014. Aurora is available as part of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). History Aurora offered MySQL compatible servic ...

, a high-performance database developed by Amazon

Transportation

Aerospace

Aurora (aircraft) Aurora was a rumored mid-1980s American reconnaissance aircraft. There is no substantial evidence that it was ever built or flown and it has been termed a myth.Aurora (airline) Aurora (russian: italic=yes, Аврора) is a Russian airline headquartered in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast. It is a subsidiary of Aeroflot which operates domestic and international flights in the Russian Far East region. , Aurora ranks ...

, a Russian airline *

Aurora D8 The Aurora D8, also known as the D8 Airliner, is an airliner concept under development as of mid 2017. The project was initiated in 2008 by Aurora Flight Sciences, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( ...

, an airliner concept currently under development *

Lockheed CP-140 Aurora The Lockheed CP-140 Aurora is a maritime patrol aircraft operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. The aircraft is based on the Lockheed P-3 Orion airframe, but mounts the electronics suite of the Lockheed S-3 Viking. "Aurora" refers to the R ...

, a maritime patrol aircraft used by the Royal Canadian Air Force *

Aurora Space Station The Aurora Space Station was a technology concept for a private commercial space station in low Earth orbit that was announced on 5 March 2018 by Orion Span, a startup aerospace company in California, United States funded by Pear Venture and B ...

, a concept for a commercial space station *

(a.k.a. Aurora), flight research subsidiary of Boeing

Automobiles

Aurora (1957 automobile) The Aurora was an American automobile prototype manufactured by Father Alfred A. Juliano, a Catholic priest, from 1957 to 1958. The Aurora is arguably the first Experimental Safety Vehicle ever made, even before the coinage of the ESV initialism. ...

, an American automobile *

Aurora Solar Car The Aurora Vehicle Association is a group of volunteers who are dedicated to achieving and demonstrating extreme efficiency in transport. Aurora was started in 1980 by building high-fuel-efficiency petrol-powered vehicles. Between 1983 and 1985 Au ...

Oldsmobile Aurora The Oldsmobile Aurora is a luxury sports sedan, manufactured and marketed by General Motors from 1994 until 2003 over two generations — sharing platforms with Buick Riviera and using the Cadillac-derived G platform. At the time of product ...

, 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 The ''Aurora Winter Train,'' operated by the Alaska Railroad, provides passenger service between the cities of Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska. It is a seasonal train, only operating during the non-summer months. It is similar to the '' Hurrican ...

'', seasonal passenger service on the Alaska Railroad * ''Aurora'', a

South Devon Railway Comet class The Comet class were 12 broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway and associated railways. They were designed for passenger trains on this steep and sharply curved line but were also used on goods trains when required. They ...

locomotive * Brand name to be applied to the

British Rail Class 810 The British Rail Class 810 ''Aurora'' is a type of bi-mode multiple unit being constructed by Hitachi Rail for East Midlands Railway. Based on the Hitachi AT300 design, 33 five-car units are being built to replace Class 180 and Class 222 units ...

Road

Aurora Boulevard Aurora Boulevard is a four-to-ten lane major thoroughfare in Quezon City and San Juan in Metro Manila, Philippines. It was named after Doña Aurora Quezon, the consort of Commonwealth President Manuel Luis Quezon. It is one of the major roads in ...

, 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. Aurora Fútbol Club is a Guatemalan professional football club. They are based in Guatemala City and play their home matches in the Estadio Cementos Progreso. Once one of the most powerful teams in the country and a traditional rival of fellow ...

, a Guatemalan football club *

Aurora FC (Canada) Aurora FC was a Canadian semi-professional association football, soccer club based in Aurora, Ontario, Aurora, Ontario. The club continues to operate as a youth soccer club. The club was founded in 1964 as a youth soccer club and added its semi- ...

, a Canadian soccer club *

Club Aurora Club Aurora is a football club from Cochabamba, Bolivia, that plays in the División de Fútbol Profesional, the top tier of Bolivian football. The club was founded May 27, 1935, and plays its home games at the Estadio Félix Capriles. Achieve ...

, a Bolivian football club *

FBC Aurora Foot Ball Club Aurora is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Arequipa, Peru. The club were founded 1916 and play in the Copa Perú which is the third division of the Peruvian league. History The club have played at the highest lev ...

, a Peruvian football club *

Aurora Seriate Calcio Aurora Seriate Calcio or simply Aurora Seriate was an Italian association football club, based in Seriate, Lombardy. Aurora Seriate last played in Serie D. History The club was founded in 1967 and developed in the next decade within the parish ...

, a defunct Italian football club *

Aurora Pro Patria 1919 Aurora Pro Patria 1919, commonly referred to as Pro Patria, is an Italian football club based in Busto Arsizio, Lombardy. It currently plays in Serie C. In Latin, Pro Patria translates to "For the Fatherland". History Pro Patria et Libertate ...

, an Italian football club * S.P. Aurora, a defunct Sammarinese football club

Other uses

Jagjit Singh Aurora Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Arora (also Jagjit Singh Aurora)Both spellings are used in official documents; though "Aurora" predominates in the listings in the pre-Independence ''Indian Army List'', as do those in the ''Gazette of India''. ...

(1916–2005), Indian soldier *

Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity The Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity is an annual international humanitarian award recognizing individuals for humanitarian work. It is awarded on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian genocide. The Aurora Prize ceremonies have taken place a ...

, an international humanitarian award *

Aurora Solar Thermal Power Project Aurora Solar Thermal Power Project was a planned solar power tower solar thermal power plant to be located north of Port Augusta in South Australia. It was planned to generate 150 MW of electricity after it was completed in 2020. Storage ca ...

, a proposed solar-powered electricity generator in South Australia