A nova is an exploding star.

Nova or NOVA may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

  • Nova (fairy), in the American 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 Bright, a character from the movie Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires
  • Nova Forrester, a character 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
  • NOVA Laboratories, fictional company that developed the S.A.I.N.T. robots in Short Circuit (1986 film)
  • Nova, a character in Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated
  • Mira Nova, a character in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

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 women's 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

  • Deutschlandfunk Nova, a German radio station
  • 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 media and telecommunications company
  • Nova (Iceland), a telecommunications company
  • Nova Bus, a Canadian bus manufacturer
  • Nova Measuring Instruments, a provider of semiconductor manufacturing equipment
  • 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)
  • Nova–New Future, a Spanish party associated with Sobiranistes

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 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
  • National Organization for Victim Advocacy, American victims' rights group

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 (activist), twentieth-century gay liberation activist
  • 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

Computing

  • Data General Nova, a minicomputer first built in 1969
  • NOVA (filesystem), a Linux filesystem
  • Nova (operating system), a Cuban state-sponsored Linux distribution
  • OpenStack Nova, a distributed computing component
  • Nova, a web development application made by Panic Inc.
  • Nova Launcher, an Android launcher

Science

  • Nova classification, a taxonomy of foodstuffs
  • Nova (laser), built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1984
  • NOvA, a particle physics neutrino experiment in Fermilab

Transportation and vehicular

Automotive

  • Nova Bus, a Canadian bus manufacturer

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

Spaceflight

  • Intuitive Machines Nova-series of lunar landers, see Intuitive Machines Nova-C
  • Stoke Space Nova, a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle by Stoke Space
  • Nova (NASA rocket), a series of proposed NASA rocket designs in the 1960s

Aviation

  • 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
  • Nova, a high-altitude ballooning project by CU Spaceflight

Other uses in transportation

  • SS Nova, a Cypriot cargo ship
  • Nova, a brand of train cars used by TransPennine Express

Other uses

  • Benelli Nova, a pump-action shotgun
  • Huawei Nova, smartphone model by Huawei
  • Nova music festival massacre
  • Nova Scotia salmon or Nova lox, a variant of lox

See also

  • Novum (plural Nova), scientifically plausible innovations used by science fiction narratives
  • Novak, a surname and a given name
  • Novae (disambiguation)
  • Novas (disambiguation)

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  • Nõva (disambiguation)
  • Nove (disambiguation)
  • Novi (disambiguation)
  • Novo (disambiguation)
  • Novus (disambiguation)
  • Novy (disambiguation)