History Main / AlienSky

* In ''Film/DunePartTwo'', the sun of Giedi Prime (the polluted Harkonnen planet) shines in a particular way that's been rendered as [[DeliberatelyMonochrome the footage being mostly black and white]].

* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'': The series, taking place on multiple worlds, naturally gives a good number of odd skies to look at when you're not blowing everything to Kingdom Come.
** ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankToolsOfDestruction Tools of Destruction]] has a memorable part during the final battle. You teleport to another dimension, where you fight above a raging black hole against a crashing asteroid ring.

* The world in ''Literature/DaybreakOnHyperion'' has something less of a moon and something that comes across more as a companion planet. Not many details are given, only that it's large and purple.

* ''Literature/TheLastContinent'': The appearance of the first clouds over Fourecks for thousands of years is very strange for some local Literature/{{Discworld}} wizards, who've never seen such a thing before.

** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': The Ringworld sky is dominated by the Ring, and "night" is produced by the Shadow Squares that create very sharp, alternating bands of light and darkness without any twilight period -- the day-night cycles alternates precisely between high noonday light and deep star-studded darkness.

** ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'': the Ringworld sky is dominated by the Ring, and "night" is produced by the Shadow Squares.

** When the Moon is low in the horizon, it can look eerie shades of orange and red, such as the Hunter's Moon. A full moon rising during sunset can look bright pink.

* ''ComicBook/TheDefenders:'' During a time travel story, involving the ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy, the two teams get split up due to a malfunctioning teleport beam. Major Victory and Valkyrie land in a swamp, and Major Victory tells her they're not on Earth, pointing out the two moons in the sky as proof. They turn out to be on the Badoon homeworld.

''Fanfic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'': Well, it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. In worlds affected by the [[BigBad Big Bad's]] rampant tampering throughout time and space, the skies ''[[CrackInTheSky break]]'', and drop tangible pieces onto whoever or whatever is unfortunate enough to be below.

%%* ''Fanfic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'': Well, it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The skies ''break''. %%Example needs explanation to make sense on its own.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Planetcopia}}'' usually has the sky colors of alternate worlds carefully described. Note that this includes unusual weather patterns, such as Lyr's polar rain belts.

* ''Fanfic/{{Oblivion}}'': At the start of Episode 6, Tim realizes something's off when the sky is suddenly red.

* [[http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-page&page=gen_skyonalienworlds Here's an article]] from the ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' encyclopedia that makes detailed predictions of what conditions would produce what sort of Alien Sky.

*** ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'': Inverted. Kara realizes she isn't on Krypton anymore when the Earth Sun rises... and it's a yellow sun instead of red.

** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerIII'': The skies of the Realm of Chaos have no celestial bodies, and burn with powerful magical energies. The sky of Tzeentch's realm, for instance, is a mixture of vivid blue and coruscating pink clouds.

* VideoGame/{{Tobal}} is a fictional Earth-like planet and has a similar atmosphere, but it also sports rings and at least six moons that can be seen in the sky during rounds, along with neighboring ringed planets. Oddly, ''Tobal 2'' removed much of the more exotic features, leaving its skies to look much more typical save for an occasional moon.

** Perhaps the most spectacular view in the Solar System would be from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(moon) Saturn's moon Iapetus.]][[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(moon) One]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethys_(moon) of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon) those]] that look like The Death Star from ''Film/StarWarsANewHope'', which is pretty cool in itself.[[/note]] It's the furthest away of Saturn's large moons and orbits at an incline. Both are important; the former bit means you can see the whole ring system (except the part on the opposite side of Saturn from you, of course!), while the latter bit means you can actually see the rings in all their glory -- the other moons all orbit on the same plane of the rings, so at best you'll see them as a thin line (at worst you're on Titan and can see nothing but orange haze). But on Iapetus, you see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_from_Iapetus.jpg this.]] Also, Iapetus has some fantastically gorgeous mountains, plus half the moon is bright white and half is almost pitch-black; one imagines that Iapetus would be a great place for tourism.

** ''Series/LandOfTheLost1974''

* ''Series/LandOfTheLost'': The Land has three moons (and sometimes two suns), but given what's learned about the Land during the series, they may not be exactly... real.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'': The planet HP-02017 has two suns, [[BinarySuns a yellow dwarf called Alpha and and a red dwarf called Beta]], and two moons, one the size of Earh's moon named Pyramus and a smaller, more reflective moon named Thisbe which can lead to strange sky arrangements such as a [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/684016512154075136/a-simultaneous-sunrise-and-sunset-highlights-the simultaneous sunrise and sunset]] and all of the conflicting colors and Lunar phases that come with it. It's also stated that eclipses are much more common thanks to the planet having two suns and two moons and can occur two the three times a year.

* ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' takes place, appropriately enough, on the moon, so it has a huge Earth floating in the sky.