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A
nova is an exploding star.
Nova or NOVA may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Fictional entities
Nova (fairy) , in the U.S. 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 Forrester, 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
Gaming
Literature
Music
Artists
Albums and songs
Radio
Television
Businesses and organizations
Companies
Nova (Greece) , a telecommunications company
Nova (Iceland) , a telecommunications company
Nova Bus , a Canadian bus manufacturer
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 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
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 of Lisbon , Portugal
Villanova University , Pennsylvania, U.S., informally known as Nova
Other organisations
People
Given name and mononym
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
Science and technology
NOVA (filesystem) , a Linux filesystem
Nova classification , a taxonomy of foodstuffs
Nova (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 in the 1960s
NOνA , a particle physics neutrino experiment in Fermilab
Data General Nova , a minicomputer first built in 1969
OpenStack Nova , a distributed computing component
Nova, a high-altitude ballooning project by
CU Spaceflight
Nova, a web development application made by
Panic Inc.
Transportation
Cars
Other uses in transportation
Air Nova , a Canadian airline 1986–2001
Nova Air , an airline based in Mexico City, Mexico, 2005–2008
Nova Airways , based in Khartoum, Sudan, founded in 2000
Nova Airlines AB, operating as
Novair , a former Swedish airline
SS Nova , a Cypriot cargo ship 1969–1971
Nova, a brand of train cars used by
TransPennine Express
Nova Bus , a Canadian bus manufacturer
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term