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 University (Shanghai), China
  • 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 (2019 film), a Finnish 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 (Yes album), 2026
  • 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 Ateez from Treasure EP.3: One to All
  • "Aurora", a song by Björk from Vespertine
  • "Aurora", a song by Ensiferum from Winter Storm
  • "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 Hope for the Dying from Legacy
  • "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
  • Aurora (chain), a Ukrainian chain of shops

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
  • 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
  • Huanghai Aurora, a Chinese mid-size SUV
  • 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 Borealis Express, Helsinki‒Kolari night train in Finland
  • Aurora (CityNightLine), Switzerland‒Germany‒Denmark night train
  • Aurora (Trans Europ Express) service, in Italy
  • Aurora Winter Train, seasonal passenger service on the Alaska Railroad
  • Aurora, a South Devon Railway Comet class locomotive
  • Aurora, brand name for British Rail Class 810 passenger trains

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

See also

  • La Aurora (disambiguation)
  • Aurora Airport (disambiguation)
  • Aurore (disambiguation)
  • Arora (disambiguation)
  • Avrora (disambiguation)