# 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

## Places
### 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

## 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 (di Suvero), a 1992 sculpture by Mark di Suvero
* Aurora (Asawa), Ruth Asawa sculpture

### 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
* Aurora Gaming, a Serbian esports organization
* 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

### 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) (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 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

## Science and technology
### 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 text-to-image model used by Grok (chatbot) and developed by xAI
* 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

## Transportation
### 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 (City Night Line), Switzerland‒Germany‒Denmark
* Aurora (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