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Sky Above Clouds IV

Sky Above Clouds IV is a 1965 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe depicting rows of white clouds seen from an airplane, the largest of her career, hanging at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sky Atlantic

Sky Atlantic is a Sky pay TV drama channel launched 1 February 2011 as the UK home of HBO under a £150m output deal; HBO Max's 2026 UK launch ended its exclusivity for new HBO shows.

Sky Blu (rapper)

Sky Blu (Skyler Austen Gordy, born 1986, Los Angeles) is an American rapper, DJ, and grandson of Motown founder Berry Gordy; he co-founded LMFAO with uncle Redfoo in 2006, scored "Party Rock Anthem", and later released solo work as 8ky 6lu.

Sky blue

Sky blue, known in Japanese as sora-iro, is the color of the daytime sky, produced when Rayleigh scattering by air molecules sends blue light to the eye.

Sky Brown (スカイ・ブラウン)

Sky Brown (スカイ・ブラウン), British-Japanese skateboarder and surfer born in Miyazaki, Japan; two-time Olympic park bronze medallist (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) and Britain's youngest Olympic medallist at 13.

Sky burial (བྱ་གཏོར་)

Sky burial (བྱ་གཏོར་, jhator) is a Tibetan funerary practice in which the dead are dismembered on mountaintops and left for vultures, seen as a final act of giving.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 science fiction adventure film set in 1939. It follows a reporter and aviator investigating giant robot attacks.

Sky Castle

Sky Castle (SKY 캐슬) is a 2018 South Korean JTBC satirical black comedy about elite families' obsessive college admissions competition, which became the highest-rated Korean cable drama at the time.

Sky Cinema

Sky Cinema is Sky's pay-TV movie service in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, and Italy, rebranded from Sky Movies on 8 July 2016; formerly a 1990s classic-film channel name, it offers daily premieres, Sky Original films, Paramount+, and Vue tickets.

Sky Days

Sky Days (JaKeita Days, born 1983, Harlem), also Fly Tatted Sky, American reality TV personality from VH1's Black Ink Crew (seasons 2–8), later Baddies East and CrashOut host.

Sky deity

Sky deity: a god or goddess whose domain is the sky or weather from it, e.g. Zeus, Nut, Tengri, and the Indo-European Sky Father (Dyeus Ph₂tēr); often linked with sovereignty, thunder, and creation myths.

Sky Elobar

Sky Elobar, American character actor and former musician (Seventh House, Atlantic Records album 412), best known as Big Brayden in Jim Hosking's The Greasy Strangler and as Paul in Ebony & Ivory.

Sky Enck

Sky Enck (Schuyler Colfax Enck, 1900-1970), American middle-distance runner, Penn State; won 1924 Olympic 800 m bronze and ran on Penn State's world-record 7:48.8 4x880 y relay at the 1923 Penn Relays.

Sky Ferreira

Sky Ferreira (Sky Tonia Ferreira, born 1992, Los Angeles) is an American singer-songwriter, model, and actress discovered via Myspace; her 2013 album Night Time, My Time reached Billboard No. 45, while her second album Masochism stayed unreleased.

Sky Force (स्काई फोर्स)

Sky Force (स्काई फोर्स) is a 2025 Hindi war drama by Sandeep Kewlani and Abhishek Anil Kapur, starring Akshay Kumar and Veer Pahariya, dramatizing India's 1965 airstrike on Pakistan's Sargodha airbase; released 24 January 2025, it earned ₹168.88 crore worldwide and streams on Prime Video.

Sky Full of Elephants

Sky Full of Elephants is Cebo Campbell's 2024 debut speculative novel (Simon & Schuster), set after every white American drowns; professor Charlie Brunton drives his biracial daughter Sidney south to Mobile, Alabama, exploring Black identity, trauma, and healing.

Sky Go

Sky Go is Sky's streaming app for Sky TV subscribers, launched July 2011, offering live channels and on-demand titles on mobile, tablet, PC and Mac, with device and concurrent-streaming limits set by subscription tier and market.

Sky Group

Sky Group, formerly British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and Sky plc, is a European entertainment company owned by Comcast since 2018, operating Sky News and Sky Sports.

Sky High (2005 film)

Sky High is a 2005 American superhero family comedy directed by Mike Mitchell, starring Michael Angarano as a power-less teen at a floating high school for heroes.

Sky imager

A sky imager, also called an all-sky imager, is a ground-based upward-facing fisheye camera that detects clouds to forecast solar irradiance over horizons of roughly 10 to 20 minutes.

Sky Italia

Sky Italia is an Italian pay television and broadband company launched in 2003 from the merger of Stream and Telepiù, headquartered in Milan and part of Comcast's Sky Group.

Sky Kids (New Zealand TV channel)

Sky Kids is a New Zealand children's TV channel on Sky, launched 2 December 2025 on channel 101, replacing Nickelodeon after the Paramount contract ended; it mixes Nick Jr. and Cartoon Network content with NZ On Air-supported local shows like Kiri & Lou.

Sky King

Sky King is an American radio and television adventure series about an Arizona rancher-pilot who flew his Cessna, the Songbird, to catch criminals, airing from 1946.

Sky Kurtz

Sky Kurtz is the co-founder and CEO of Pure Harvest Smart Farms, an Abu Dhabi agribusiness growing produce in climate-controlled desert greenhouses, founded in 2016.

Sky Land Amusement Park

Sky Land (ملاهي سكاي لاند) is an amusement park in the Al-Reehan district near Abu Qash, north of Ramallah, West Bank; about 40,000 m2, once the West Bank's largest, now listed SBNO.

Sky lantern

Sky lantern (Kongming lantern, 孔明灯, tian deng, khom loi): a small paper hot-air balloon lifted by an open flame, used historically for military signaling and now released at festivals such as Yi Peng and the Lantern Festival, with drift over 20 km and bans or permits in Singapore, Beijing, Oregon, and Switzerland.

Sky Living

Sky Living: British pay TV channel known as UK Living from 1 September 1993, renamed Sky Living on 1 February 2011 after Sky bought Virgin Media Television, and rebranded Sky Witness on 6 August 2018, ending the Living brand after 25 years.

Sky marshal

A sky marshal, also known as a flight marshal or in-flight security officer, is an armed officer who travels covertly on commercial flights to protect against hijacking and terrorism.

Sky News

Sky News is a 24-hour rolling television news channel operated by Sky UK, which is part of Comcast NBCUniversal. It launched at 6 pm on February 5, 1989.

Sky News Arabia (عربية)

Sky News Arabia (سكاي نيوز عربية) is a 24-hour Arabic news channel launched 6 May 2012 in Abu Dhabi. Originally a 50:50 Sky-IMI joint venture, it became wholly IMI-owned in 2026 under a brand licence, with AI-equipped Yas Island studios since 2025.