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A nova is an exploding star.
Nova or NOVA may also refer to:
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 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
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
- 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
- SS Nova, a Cypriot cargo ship
- 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
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