# Nova (disambiguation)

A nova is an exploding star.
Nova or NOVA may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Fictional entities

* Nova (fairy), in the U.S. TV series Once Upon a Time
* Nova (Planet of the Apes), a character in Planet of the Apes
* Nova (StarCraft), a fictional character in the StarCraft series and Heroes of the Storm
* 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 (Sam Alexander), a Marvel Comics Superhero, the teenage member of the Nova Corps
* Nova Forrester, in Star Blazers
* Nova (Ultra monster)
* Nova 6, a biochemical weapon in Call of Duty: Black Ops
* NOVA, in Kirby Super Star
* Nova, a Magic Knight Rayearth character
* Nova, a Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! character
* Weapon of Mass Destruction Nova, in Mirai Sentai Timeranger
* Nova Terron, a supporting character in Mysticons

### Gaming

* 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
* Nova Awards, UK science fiction award
* The Nova Trilogy, a series of novels by William S. Burroughs
* Nova (Brazilian magazine), a monthly feminine magazine
* Nova (UK magazine), a British magazine 1965–75
* Nova Science Fiction, a Swedish magazine for science fiction
* Nova (tabloid), a weekly Indonesian tabloid

### Music
#### Artists

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

#### Albums and songs

* Nova (Atargatis album), 2007
* Nova (Rajaton album), 2000
* Nova (RL Grime album), 2018
* "Nova" (The Sound of Arrows song), by The Sound of Arrows

### Radio

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

### Television

* Nova TV (disambiguation), the name of several television channels
* Nova (Dutch TV program), a current-events program
* Nova (American TV program), a science documentary series

## Businesses and organizations
### Companies

* Nova (Greece), a telecommunications company
* Nova (Iceland), a telecommunications company
* Nova Bus, a Canadian bus manufacturer
* Nova Chemicals, a Canadian petrochemical company
* Nova Energy, a division of Todd Corporation
* Nova Entertainment, an Australian company
* Nova Performance Paragliders, an Austrian aircraft manufacturer
* Nova Press, a French media company
* Nova Studios, gay pornographic film studio
* Nova Systems, who run the Nova Systems Space Precinct in Peterborough, South Australia
* Elavon Inc., formerly NOVA, a processor of card transactions and a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp

### Political parties

* New Majority (Slovakia)
* New Serb Democracy, Montenegro
* New Party (Serbia)

### Schools

* Northern Virginia Community College, Virginia, U.S., also known as NoVa
* Nova High School (Redding, California), U.S., a public high school from 1967 to 1991
* Nova High School, Florida, U.S.
* Nova Southeastern University, Florida, U.S.
* The Nova Project, an alternative high school in Washington, U.S.
* Nova (eikaiwa), an English language conversation school in Japan
* NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Villanova University, Pennsylvania, U.S., informally known as Nova
** Villanova Wildcats, the school's athletic program also known by the informal nickname

### Other organisations

* Nova – Center for Social Innovation, Spain
* Nova Group (metros), multinational collection of metro systems focusing on international benchmarking, based in London, UK
* NOVA-MBA Association, the global association of Italian MBAs
* Nova Institution for Women, a Canadian federal women's prison

## People
### Given name and mononym

* Nova (given name), including a list of people with the name
* 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
* Nova, stage name of Shaheeda Sinckler, winner of the 2020 Scottish Album of the Year Award

### Surname

* Aldo Nova (born 1956), Canadian musician
* 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
* Stella Nova (1960–2010), British guitarist

## Places

* Nova, Hungary
* Nova, East Azerbaijan, Iran
* Nova, Semnan, Iran
* Nova, Cherepovetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia
* Nova, Ohio, U.S.
* Northern Virginia, U.S.
* Nova, Africa, former Ancient city and Roman bishopric, now in Tunisia and a Latin Catholic titular see
* Nõva (disambiguation), several places in Estonia
* Nova Mine, in Western Australia

## Science and technology

* NOVA (filesystem), a Linux filesystem
* Nova classification, a taxonomy of foodstuffs
* Nova (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 in the 1960s
* Stoke Space Nova, a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle by Stoke Space
* NOνA, a particle physics neutrino experiment in Fermilab
* Data General Nova, a minicomputer first built in 1969
* OpenStack Nova, a distributed computing component
* Nova, a high-altitude ballooning project by CU Spaceflight
* Nova, a web development application made by Panic Inc.

## Transportation
### Cars

* Nova (kit car), a kit car developed by Automotive Design and Development
* Dacia Nova, a Romanian supermini liftback
* Lada Nova, a Russian compact car sold in Germany
* Various automobiles marketed by General Motors:
** Chevrolet Nova, an American passenger car
** Holden Nova, an Australian compact car based on the Toyota Corolla
** Vauxhall Nova, a British supermini

### Other uses in transportation

* Air Nova, a Canadian airline
* Nova Air, an airline based in Mexico City, Mexico
* Nova Airways, a passenger airline based in Khartoum, Sudan
* Nova Airlines AB, operating as Novair, a former Swedish airline
* SS Nova, a Cypriot cargo ship
* Nova, a brand of train cars used by TransPennine Express
* Nova Bus, a Canadian bus manufacturer

## Other uses

* Benelli Nova, a pump-action shotgun
* Nova Scotia salmon or Nova lox, a variant of lox