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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), 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
- Nova Awards, UK science fiction award
- The Nova Trilogy, a series of novels by William S. Burroughs
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 channels
- Nova TV (disambiguation), various television channels
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 Performance Paragliders, an Austrian paraglider manufacturer
- 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
United States
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
- 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
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)
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