Nessus may refer to:

Mythology

Nessus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Nessus () was a famous centaur who was killed by Heracles, and whose poisoned blood in turn killed Heracles. He was the son of Centauros. He fought in the battle with the Lapiths and became a ferryman on the river Euen ...

, a famous centaur from Greek mythology * Nessus, an alternate name of Nestos (god), son of Oceanus and Tethys, and god of the river Nestos

Fiction

Nessus (Pierson's Puppeteer) This is a list of fictional characters featured in the ''Known Space'' novels by Larry Niven. Individual characters Sigmund Ausfaller Sigmund Ausfaller, a native of Earth, is a member of the Amalgamated Regional Militia ("ARM"), working in t ...

, an alien character in Larry Niven's ''Known Space'' books * Nessus, a fictional metropolis in Gene Wolfe's ''

The Book of the New Sun ''The Book of the New Sun'' (1980–1983, 1987) is a four-volume science fantasy novel written by the American author Gene Wolfe. The work is in four parts with a fifth novel acting as a coda to the main story. It inaugurated the "Solar Cycle" ...

'' * Nessus, a layer of

Hell In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history sometimes depict hells as eternal destinations, such as Christianity and I ...

(Baator) in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' tabletop game * Nessus, one of the moons of the fictional planet Chiron in the computer game ''

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ''Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri'' is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the ''Civilization'' series. Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd century, the game begins as seven competing ideological factions land on the plane ...

'' * Nessus, a planetoid location in the video game ''

Destiny 2 ''Destiny 2'' is a free-to-play online first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie. It was originally released as a pay-to-play game in 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows. It became free-to-play, utilizing the games as a se ...

'', based on the below Centaur

Science and technology

7066 Nessus 7066 Nessus is a very red Centaur (minor planet), centaur on an eccentric orbit, located beyond Saturn in the outer Solar System. It was discovered on 26 April 1993, by astronomers of the Spacewatch program at the Kitt Peak National Observator ...

, a Centaur planetoid *

Nessus (software) Nessus is a proprietary software, proprietary vulnerability scanner developed by Tenable, Inc. History In 1998 Renaud Deraison created ''The Nessus Project'' as a free remote security scanner. On October 5 2005, with the release of Nessus 3, the ...

, a computer security tool * Nessus (Blackberry), the proprietary kernel all Blackberry before

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were based upon *

NESSUS Probabilistic Analysis Software {{other uses of, Nessus NESSUS is a general-purpose, probabilistic analysis program that simulates variations and uncertainties in loads, geometry, material behavior and other user-defined inputs to compute probability of failure and probabilistic ...

, a tool for assessing uncertainties in structural and mechanical systems *

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or ''Amphion floridensis'', a moth found in North America

Other uses

* , two vessels of the Royal Navy (UK) {{disambig