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An '''[[aurora]]''' is a natural light display in the sky on Earth seen predominantly in the high latitudes.

'''Aurora''' may also refer to:

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== 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)|''Aurora'' (Artemisia Gentileschi)]], a c1625-1627 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
* [[Aurora (Reni)|''Aurora'' (Reni)]], a 1614 Baroque ceiling fresco by Guido Reni
* [[Aurora (di Suvero)|''Aurora'' (di Suvero)]], a 1992 sculpture by Mark di Suvero
*[[Aurora (Asawa)|''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)|''Aurora'' (novel)]], a 2015 novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
* ''Aurora'', an airship in the novel ''[[Airborn (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)|''Aurora'' (literary journal)]], a literary journal published from 1821 to 1837
* [[Aurora (newspaper)|''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)|''Aurora'' (1984 film)]], an Italian drama
* [[Aurora (2006 film)|''Aurora'' (2006 film)]], a Ukrainian film
* [[Aurora (2010 film)|''Aurora'' (2010 film)]], a Romanian crime story
* [[Aurora (2014 film)|''Aurora'' (2014 film)]], a Chilean film
* [[Aurora (2018 Filipino film)|''Aurora'' (2018 Filipino film)]], a Philippine film
* [[Aurora (2018 Kyrgyz film)|''Aurora'' (2018 Kyrgyz film)]], a Kyrgyzstani film
* [[Aurora (TV series)|''Aurora'' (TV series)]], a Spanish-language telenovela
* [[Aurora (Stargate Atlantis)|"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 (TV series)|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)|''Aurora'' (opera)]], a 1908 opera by Ettore Panizza
* [[Aurora (tone poem)|''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)|''Aurora'' (Angela Chang album)]], 2004
* [[Aurora (Antiskeptic album)|''Aurora'' (Antiskeptic album)]], 2003
* [[Aurora (Asia album)|''Aurora'' (Asia album)]], 1986
* [[Aurora (Aurora album)|''Aurora'' (Aurora album)]], 2000
* [[Aurora (Bada album)|''Aurora'' (Bada album)]], 2004
* [[Aurora (Breaking Benjamin album)|''Aurora'' (Breaking Benjamin album)]], 2020
* [[Aurora (Daisy Jones & the Six album)|''Aurora'' (Daisy Jones & the Six album)]], 2023
* [[Aurora (Esmerine album)|''Aurora'' (Esmerine album)]], 2005
* [[Aurora (Jean-Luc Ponty album)|''Aurora'' (Jean-Luc Ponty album)]], 1976
* [[Aurora (Nico Touches the Walls album)|''Aurora'' (Nico Touches the Walls album)]], 2009
* [[Aurora (Susumu Hirasawa album)|''Aurora'' (Susumu Hirasawa album)]], 1994
* [[Aurora (Ben Frost album)|''Aurora'' (Ben Frost album)]], 2014
* [[Aurora (Bea Miller album)|''Aurora'' (Bea Miller album)]], 2018
* ''Aurora'', a 2009 album by [[Avishai Cohen (bassist)|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 (singer)|Nikolija]]

==== Songs ====
* [[Aurora (Foo Fighters song)|"Aurora" (Foo Fighters song)]], 1999
* [[Aurora (Lights Action song)|"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]]''
* "L'aurora", a song by Eros Ramazzotti from ''[[Dove c'è musica]]''
* "Aurora", a song by Gloria Trevi from ''[[De Película (Gloria Trevi album)|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 (Susumu Hirasawa album)|Aurora]]''
** "Aurora 2", a Susumu Hirasawa remix of "Aurora" from ''[[Solar Ray]]''
* "Aurora", a song by Vanessa Mae from ''[[Storm (Vanessa-Mae album)|Storm]]''
* "Aurora", a song by Veruca Salt from ''[[Tank Girl (film)#Soundtrack|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 [[List of albedo features on Mercury|albedo feature on Mercury]]

=== Biology ===
* [[Aurora (genus)|''Aurora'' (genus)]], a synonym of a genus of sponges
* ''Aurora'', a synonym of the moth genus [[Peoria (moth)|''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 OS#Aurora OS|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 (company)|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 computing|Exascale]]-class supercomputer at the U.S.-based [[Argonne National Laboratory]] under development in the 2010s and 2020s
* Aurora, a supercomputer produced by [[Eurotech (company)|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 Borealis Express]]'', Helsinki‒Kolari night train in Finland
* [[Aurora (CityNightLine)|''Aurora'' (CityNightLine)]], Switzerland‒Germany‒Denmark night train
* [[Aurora (Trans Europ Express)|''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 ==
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* [[La Aurora (disambiguation)]]
* [[Aurora Airport (disambiguation)]]
* [[Aurora station (disambiguation)]]
* [[Aurore (disambiguation)]]
* [[Arora (disambiguation)]]
* [[Avrora (disambiguation)]]

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