Nova (disambiguation)

A nova is an exploding star.

Nova or NOVA may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

• Nova (fairy), a fictional character on the U.S. TV series Once Upon a Time
• Nova (Planet of the Apes), a fictional 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 (Ultra monster)
• Nova 6, a fictional biochemical weapon in Call of Duty: Black Ops
• NOVA, a Kirby Super Star character
• Nova, a Magic Knight Rayearth character
• Nova, a Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! character
• Weapon of Mass Destruction Nova, a Mirai Sentai Timeranger character

Games

• 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
• The Nova Trilogy, a series of novels by William S. Burroughs

Music

Groups

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

Albums and songs

• Nova (Atargatis album), 2007
• Nova (Rajaton album), 2000
• "Nova" (The Sound of Arrows song), a single by Swedish duo The Sound of Arrows
• Nova (RL Grime album), 2018

Periodicals

• Nova (Brazilian magazine), a monthly feminine magazine published by Abril and part of the international Cosmopolitan group
• Nova (UK magazine), a British magazine, 1965–75
• Nova Science Fiction, a Swedish magazine for science fiction

Radio

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

Television

Television channels

• Nova (TV) (disambiguation), various television channels
• Nova BH (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Nova TV (Bulgaria)
• Nova TV (Croatia)
• TV Nova (Czech Republic)
• Nova M (Montenegro)
• Nova TV (Romanian TV), a local television
• Nova (Spanish TV channel), a television channel in Spain
• Nova Televisión, a Colombian local television channel

Television series

• Nova (Dutch TV series), a current-events program
• Nova (American TV program), an American science series

Organizations

Companies

• Nova Chemicals, a company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Nova Entertainment, an Australian company
• Nova (Forthnet), a Greek telecommunications company
• Nova (telecommunications), an Icelandic company
• Nova Information Systems, former name of credit card transaction firm Elavon

Political parties

• New Majority (Slovakia)
• New Serb Democracy, Montenegro

Other entities

• Nova – Center for Social Innovation
• Nova Group (metros), a group of small to medium-sized metro rail systems in the Community of Metros
• NOVA-MBA Association, the global association of Italian MBAs

People

• NŌVA (born 1995), Canadian singer-songwriter
• 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

Places

Iran

• Nova, East Azerbaijan
• Nova, Semnan

United States

• Nova, Ohio
• Northern Virginia

Elsewhere

• Nova, Africa, former Ancient city and Roman bishopric, now in Tunisia and a Latin Catholic titular see
• Nõva (disambiguation), several places in Estonia
• Nova, Hungary

Science and technology

• Nova (laser), high-power 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
• Nova, a high-altitude ballooning project by CU Spaceflight
• NOνA, a particle physics neutrino experiment in Fermilab
• NOVA, a classification system for ultra-processed food
• Data General Nova, a minicomputer first built in 1969
• OpenStack Nova, a distributed computing component
• NOVA (filesystem), a Linux filesystem

Transportation

• SS Nova, a Cypriot cargo ship in service 1969–1971
• Nova, a brand of train cars used by TransPennine Express
• Nova Bus, a Canadian bus manufacturer

Airlines

• Air Nova, a Canadian airline from 1986 to 2001
• Nova Airways, a passenger airline based in Khartoum, Sudan, founded in 2000

Cars

• Nova (kit car)
• Chevrolet Nova, an American car produced 1962–1979 and 1985–1988
• Dacia Nova, a Romanian car produced 1995–2000
• Holden Nova, an Australian car produced 1989–1996
• Lada Nova, a Russian car produced 1982–2015
• Vauxhall Nova, a British car produced 1982–1993, a version of the Opel Corsa A

Schools

United States

• Northern Virginia Community College, Virginia, also known as NoVa
• Nova High School (Redding, California), a public high school from 1967 to 1991
• Nova High School, Florida
• Nova Southeastern University, Florida
• The Nova Project, an alternative high school in Washington

Elsewhere

• Nova (eikaiwa), an English language conversation school in Japan
• NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, also known as NOVA

Other uses

• Benelli Nova, a pump action shotgun
• Nova Institution for Women, a Canadian federal women's prison
• Nova Scotia salmon or Nova lox, a variant of lox

People with the name

Given name

• Nova Arianto (born 1978), Indonesian professional footballer of Tionghoan descent
• Nova Meierhenrich (born 1973), German television presenter
• Nova Miller (born 2001), Swedish singer, dancer, actress, and multi-instrumentalist
• Nova Peris (born 1971), Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician
• Nova Pilbeam (1919-2015), British actress
• Nova Ren Suma (born 1975), American #1 New York Times best selling author of young adult novels

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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with nova
• All pages with titles containing nova
• Novum (plural Nova), scientifically plausible innovations used by science fiction narratives
• Novas (disambiguation)
• Novae (disambiguation)
• Novak, a surname and a given name
• Nõva (disambiguation)
• Nove (disambiguation)
• Novi (disambiguation)
• Novo (disambiguation)
• Novus (disambiguation)