Nova was a Dutch electronic music band based in Dordrecht, started in 1979 under the name PERU with Peter Kommers and Ruud van Es and later on with Rob Papen, who reached the number 1 position in the Dutch Top 40 in 1982 with the instrumental Aurora. Later that year, the group had another hit with ''Sol'', where Nova also made a single of ''Ariane (The Traveller)''. After Nova's success, the group continued from 1983 only under the name of Peru. In 1989 Nova released The World of Synthesizers album.

Nova was the so called commercial branch of PERU. Under this name, the group had a modest hit with the number Africa in 1988.
Rob Papen and Ruud van Es are still active in producing music, but no longer under the name Nova.

The song Aurora is originally a theme from the song Sons of Dawn from the album Machu Pichu of PERU. The song was discovered by Willem van Kooten, director of the record company Red Bullet.