Blue Sky Explained

Blue Sky, BlueSky or Bluesky may refer to:

Places

• Blue Sky, Colorado, U.S.
• Bluesky, Alberta, Canada
• Mount Blue Sky, a mountain in Colorado, U.S. formerly called Mount Evans

Science

• Blue skies research (also called blue sky science), scientific research in domains where "real-world" applications are not immediately apparent
• Bluesky Formation, a stratigraphic unit of Lower Cretaceous age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
• Diffuse sky radiation, solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface after Rayleigh scattering
• Rayleigh scattering, which causes the sky to appear blue.

Art, entertainment, and media

Animation and gaming

• Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation studio acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2019
• BlueSky Software, a defunct video game company
• Looking Glass Studios, a computer game developer originally known as Blue Sky Productions

Film and television

• Blue Sky (1955 film), a Swedish comedy film
• Blue Sky (1994 film), a film starring Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones
• Blue Sky (TV channel), a Greek regional television station
• Blue Sky, blue methamphetamine in the American TV series Breaking Bad, 2008
• Blue Sky programming, USA Network's "optimistic" television shows during 2005-2016

Music

• Blue Sky Records, a record label started by manager Steve Paul
• Blue Sky (album), a 2012 album by Jinny Ng

Songs

• "Blue Sky" (song), a song by The Allman Brothers Band
• "Blue Sky", a song by rapper Common, from the album The Dreamer/The Believer
• "Blue Sky", a song by Patti Griffin, from the album Flaming Red
• "Blue Sky", a song by Emily West
• "The Blue Sky", a song by a-ha, from the album Hunting High and Low

Other art, entertainment, and media

• Blue Sky (manga), a 2007 Japanese manga
• Blue sky memo, a document authored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Business

• Blue Sky Airlines, an airline in Armenia
• Blue Sky Aviation Services, a domestic airline in Kenya
• Blue Sky Beverage Company, a soft drink manufacturer
• Blue sky law, state laws in the United States that regulate the offering and sale of securities

Software

• Bluesky (social network), a social media platform, based on a distributed networking protocol

Other uses

• BlueSky Charter School, an online school for Minnesota citizens
• Blue Sky, a rainbow code for the Fairey Fireflash air-to-air missile
• Blue Sky navigation pod, an airborne navigational/attack pod
• Blue Sky (artist) (born 1938), American painter and sculptor formerly known as Warren Edward Johnson
• Blue Sky Solar Racing, a solar car racing team based at the University of Toronto

See also

• Blue Skies (disambiguation)
• Black sky (disambiguation)
• Big Sky (disambiguation)
• "Mr. Blue Sky", a song by ELO
• Sky blue
  • Sky Blue (disambiguation)
• Blue Cloud (disambiguation)
• Blue smoke (disambiguation)