nova
A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star (hence the name "nova", which is Latin for "new") that slowly fades over weeks or months. Causes of the dramat ...
is an exploding star.
Nova or NOVA may also refer to:
People with the name
Single name
* 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
* Nova, stage name of Shaheeda Sinckler, winner of the 2020 Scottish Album of the Year Award
Given name
* Nova Arianto (born 1978), Indonesian professional footballer of Tionghoan descent
* Nova Meierhenrich (born 1973), German television presenter
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Nova Miller
Astrid Fanny Granström (born 29 July 2001), known professionally as Nova Miller, is a Swedish singer, song writer, dancer, actress and multi-instrumentalist from Stockholm, Sweden.
Life and career
Miller was born in Stockholm to a musical fa ...
(born 2001), Swedish singer, dancer, actress, and multi-instrumentalist
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Nova Peris
Nova Maree Peris (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey (Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an ...
(born 1971), Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician
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Nova Pilbeam
Nova Margery Pilbeam (15 November 1919 – 17 July 2015) was an English film and stage actress. She played leading roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films of the 1930s, and made her last film in 1948.
Early life
Pilbeam was born in Wimbledon, Sur ...
(1919-2015), British actress
* Nova Ren Suma (born 1975), American #1 New York Times best selling author of young adult novels
Surname
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Aldo Nova
Aldo Nova (born Aldo Caporuscio on November 13, 1956) is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, and producer. He initially gained fame and popularity with the release of his 1982 debut album '' Aldo Nova'' which peaked to ''Billboards ...
(born 1956), Canadian musician
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Debi Nova
Deborah Nowalski Kader, better known by her stage name Debi Nova () born 6 August 1980, is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter who resides in Los Angeles.
She was involved in six Grammy award nominated projects, including a dance song, "One Rhythm", ...
, stage name of Costa Rican singer-songwriter Deborah Nowalski Kader (born 1980)
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Erika Nõva
Erika Nõva née Volberg (4 April 1905, Muuksi – 22 April 1987, Tallinn) was an Estonian architect, remembered mainly for her farmhouse designs. She was the first woman to graduate as an architect in Estonia.
Biography
Nõva studied at the Tal ...
(1905–1987), Estonian architect
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Heather Nova
Heather Nova (born Heather Allison Frith, July 6, 1968) is a Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet. , she has released eleven full-length albums, six EPs and twelve singles.
Biography
Heather Nova was born Heather Allison Frith on Bermuda, a B ...
(born 1967), Bermudan singer, songwriter and poet
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Iván Nova
Iván Manuel Nova Guance (born January 12, 1987) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, and Det ...
(born 1987), Dominican baseball player
* Stella Nova (1960–2010), British guitarist
Nova, Ohio
Nova is an unincorporated community in central Troy Township, Ashland County, Ohio, United States. It has a post office with the ZIP code 44859. It lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 224 with State Route 511.
History
Nova was origin ...
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Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia, locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA, comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is a widespread region radiating westward and southward from Washington, D.C. Wit ...
* 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
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Nova (Richard Rider)
Nova (Richard Rider) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appeared historically as the star of his own series, and at other times, as a supporting character in team books such as '' T ...
, a Marvel Comics superhero, the original Nova and leader of the Nova Corps
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Nova (Sam Alexander)
Nova (Sam Alexander) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character, a space-faring member of the intergalactic police force known as the Nova Corps, was created in 2011 by writer Jeph Loeb and artist ...
, a Marvel Comics Superhero, the teenage member of the Nova Corps
* Nova Forrester, a fictional character in
Star Blazers
''Star Blazers'' is an American animated television series adaptation of the Japanese anime series . ''Star Blazers'' was first broadcast in the United States in 1979. It was the first popular English-translated anime that had an overarching plo ...
Kirby Super Star
''Kirby Super Star'', released as ''Kirby's Fun Pak'' in PAL regions, is an anthology Platform game, platform video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1996. It is part of the ...
Mirai Sentai Timeranger
is a Japanese ''tokusatsu'' television series and the 24th series in Toei's Super Sentai metaseries. Footage from this series was used in the American production ''Power Rangers Time Force''. The opening narration of the series announces, . ...
* ''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
''The Nova Trilogy'' or ''The Cut-up Trilogy'' is a name commonly given by critics to a series of three experimental novels by William S. Burroughs.
Volumes
* The Soft Machine
* The Ticket That Exploded
* Nova Express
Trilogy
The trilogy of exp ...
'', a series of novels by William S. Burroughs
Music
Artists
* 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 that participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973
Nova (radio network)
The Nova Network is a group of five Australian radio stations owned wholly or in part by NOVA Entertainment. The Perth station is a joint venture between NOVA Entertainment and the Australian Radio Network.
Each station has its own local Bre ...
, a group of Australian radio stations
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Nova M Radio
Nova M Radio, later known as On Second Thought, was a radio syndication service providing progressive talk programming. Founded as Nova M Radio by Sheldon and Anita Drobny in 2006, its stated purpose was to purchase, own, and operate underperf ...
Nova Bus
Nova Bus (stylized as NOVABUS) is a Canadian bus manufacturer headquartered in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada. Nova is owned by the Volvo Group.
The company has roots in the General Motors Diesel Division, which opened in 1979. Nova Bus was es ...
, a Canadian bus manufacturer
* Nova Chemicals, a company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
* Nova Energy, a subsidiary of New Zealand company
Todd Corporation
The Todd Corporation is a large private New Zealand company with a value of $4.3 billion, owned and controlled by the Todd family and headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand. The corporation is currently led by chairman of the board, Henry Tait ...
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Nova Entertainment
NOVA Entertainment is an Australian entertainment company that operates commercial radio networks (and associated digital brands) in metropolitan and regional areas of Australia.
NOVA Entertainment is owned by Lachlan Murdoch's Illyria Pty Lt ...
, an Australian company
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Nova (Greece)
Nova Telecommunications S.M.S.A. is a telecommunications company in Greece which provides broadband, television and fixed telephony. It also offers satellite services in Cyprus. It is traded on the Athens Exchange until its delisting in 2021.
I ...
, a Greek telecommunications company
* Nova (Iceland), an Icelandic telecommunications company
* Nova Information Systems, former name of credit card transaction firm Elavon
* Nova Performance Paragliders, an Austrian paraglider manufacturer
* Nova Systems, Australian engineering and technology company who run a space station in
Peterborough, South Australia
Peterborough is a town in the mid north of South Australia, in wheat country, just off the Barrier Highway. At the , Peterborough had a population of 1,419. It was originally named Petersburg after the landowner, Peter Doecke, who sold land to ...
Political parties
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New Majority (Slovakia)
New Majority (Slovak: Nová väčšina, NOVA) is a conservative political party in Slovakia.
Naming history
* : New Majority ( sk, Nová väčšina; NOVA)
* : New Majority (Daniel Lipšic) ( sk, Nová väčšina (Daniel Lipšic); NOVA)
* : Ne ...
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New Serb Democracy
New Serb Democracy (, NSD; officially abbreviated NOVA) is a Serbian nationalist right-wing political party in Montenegro, formed on 24 January 2009 as a merger between Serb People's Party and the People's Socialist Party of Montenegro. Since 2 ...
, Montenegro
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New Party (Serbia)
New Party ( sr-cyrl, Нова странка, Nova stranka, Nova) was a liberal political party in Serbia. It was founded in 2013 by Zoran Živković, the former Prime Minister of Serbia and former member of the Democratic Party, and was most r ...
Nova (laser)
Nova was a high-power laser built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, United States, in 1984 which conducted advanced inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments until its dismantling in 1999. Nova was the first ...
, high-power laser built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1984
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Nova (operating system)
Nova is a Cuban state-sponsored Linux distribution launched in February 2009. It was developed in Havana at the University of Information Science (UCI) by students and professors to provide free and open-source software (FOSS) to inexperienced use ...
, a Cuban state-sponsored Linux distribution
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Nova (rocket)
Nova was a series of NASA rocket designs that were proposed both before and after the Saturn V rocket used in the Apollo program. Nova was NASA's first large launcher proposed in 1958, for missions similar to what Saturn V was subsequently us ...
, a series of proposed rocket designs
* NOνA, a particle physics neutrino experiment in Fermilab
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Data General Nova
The Data General Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General. The Nova family was very popular in the 1970s and ultimately sold tens of thousands of units.
The first model, known simply as "Nova", was ...
, a minicomputer first built in 1969
* OpenStack Nova, a distributed computing component
* Nova, a high-altitude ballooning project by
CU Spaceflight
CU Spaceflight is a student-run society at Cambridge University. It is founded with the aim of achieving access to space, with minimal financial expenses. The society is supported by the Cambridge-MIT Institute.SS ''Nova'', a Cypriot cargo ship in service 1969–1971
* Nova, a brand of train cars used by
TransPennine Express
TransPennine Express (TPE), legally First TransPennine Express Limited, is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the TransPennine Express franchise. It runs regional and inter-city rail services between the major ci ...
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Nova Bus
Nova Bus (stylized as NOVABUS) is a Canadian bus manufacturer headquartered in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada. Nova is owned by the Volvo Group.
The company has roots in the General Motors Diesel Division, which opened in 1979. Nova Bus was es ...
, a Canadian bus manufacturer
Airlines
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Air Nova
Air Nova was an airline based in Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada that became part of Air Canada Regional in 2001. In 2002 the merger of Air BC, Air Ontario, Air Nova and Canadian Regional Airlines was finalised with the launch of a new name a ...
, a Canadian airline from 1986 to 2001
* Nova Airways, a passenger airline based in Khartoum, Sudan, founded in 2000
Chevrolet Nova
A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star (hence the name "nova", which is Latin for "new") that slowly fades over weeks or months. Causes of the dramat ...
, 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
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Vauxhall Nova
The Opel Corsa is a supermini car engineered and produced by the German automobile manufacturer Opel since 1982. Throughout its existence, it has been sold under a variety of other brands owned by General Motors (most notably Vauxhall, Chevrolet ...
, a British car produced 1982–1993
Schools
United States
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Northern Virginia Community College
Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC; informally known as NOVA) is a public community college composed of six campuses and four centers in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Northern Virginia Community College is the third- ...
, Virginia, also known as NoVa
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Nova High School (Redding, California)
Nova High School was a public high school based in Redding, California. It was a part of the Shasta Union High School District (along with Shasta High School, Enterprise High School and Central Valley High School) from 1967 until it closed in ...
, a public high school from 1967 to 1991
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Nova High School
Nova High School is a public high school located in Davie, Florida and is part of the Broward County Public Schools district. It is one of four schools that comprise the Nova Center for Applied Research and Professional Development, the others ...
, Florida
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Nova Southeastern University
Nova Southeastern University (NSU or, informally, Nova) is a private nonprofit research university with its main campus in Davie, Florida. The university consists of 14 total colleges, centers, and schools offering over 150 programs of st ...
, Florida
* The Nova Project, an alternative high school in Washington
Elsewhere
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Nova (eikaiwa)
Nova (formerly Nova Group) is a large eikaiwa school (private English teaching company) in Japan.
It was by far the largest
company of this type until its widely publicized collapse in October 2007. Before its bankruptcy, Nova employed approx ...
, an English language conversation school in Japan
* NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, also known as NOVA
Other uses
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Benelli Nova
The Benelli Nova is a pump action shotgun, used for hunting and self-defense. It has a one-piece receiver and buttstock, made of steel-reinforced polymer.
Technical specifications
Two main models are available as well as one variant.
Hunting
Th ...
, a pump-action shotgun
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Nova Institution for Women
Nova Institution for Women (french: Établissement Nova pour femmes) is a Canadian federal prison for women in Truro, Nova Scotia. The facility, which handles different levels of offenders, can accommodate up to 70 inmates. Nova Institution open ...
, a Canadian federal women's prison
* Nova Scotia salmon or Nova lox, a variant of lox
See also
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Novum
Novum (Latin for ''new thing'') is a term used by science fiction scholar Darko Suvin and others to describe the scientifically plausible innovations used by science fiction narratives.
Origin
Suvin learned the term from Ernst Bloch, whose wor ...
Nove (disambiguation)
Nove is a town and province in Veneto, Italy.
Nove, Noves, Nové, and Novés may also refer to:
People
* Alexander Nove (1915–1994), Russian professor
* Charles Nove (born 1960), BBC voiceover announcer
* Guy Novès (born 1954), former footb ...
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Novi (disambiguation)
Novi may refer to the following :
Places and jurisdictions
Balkans
* Novi Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Novi Sad, a city in Serbia
* the former Catholic Diocese of Novi, with see at Herceg-Novi (Castelnuovo), in Montenegro; now a Latin titu ...
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Novo (disambiguation)
'' Novo'' is a 2002 film by Jean-Pierre Limosin.
Novo may also refer to:
* Novo (surname)
* "Novo" (song), by Laura Pausini, 2018
*"Novo", a song by Millencolin from '' Kingwood''
*Novo, 1970s-1980s Soviet reissue of some Frog model kits
*Novo ...
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Novus (disambiguation)
Novus ("new" in Latin) may refer to:
Companies
* Novus Biologicals, a biotech company based in Littleton, Colorado, US
* Novus Entertainment, a Canadian telecommunications company
* Novus International, an animal health and nutrition company
* Nov ...