Astronomy

Quality:

Astronomy - natural science studying celestial objects and phenomena in the cosmos. Article “Astronomy” in English Wikipedia has 97 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 191 references and 38 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hungarian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2247^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3045^th most popular in all topics.

The 673^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6510^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Astronomy” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 25 authors in all languages (6510^th place).

Since the creation of article “Astronomy”, its content was written by 1526 registered users of English Wikipedia (2247^th place) and edited by 7396 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (673^rd place).

The article is cited 6528 times in English Wikipedia (3424^th place) and cited 137169 times in all languages (878^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9 in June 2002
• Global: #1 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4558 in June 2010
• Global: #1154 in May 2009

There are 55 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hungarian (hu) Csillagászat		100
2	Ukrainian (uk) Астрономія		100
3	English (en) Astronomy		97.0379
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Astronomija		96.2891
5	Chinese (zh) 天文學		96.1528
6	Arabic (ar) علم الفلك		94.1547
7	Esperanto (eo) Astronomio		94.0055
8	Indonesian (id) Astronomi		93.8652
9	Romanian (ro) Astronomie		92.4584
10	Slovenian (sl) Astronomija		87.7968

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Astronomy		12 514 725
2	Spanish (es) Astronomía		12 060 241
3	Portuguese (pt) Astronomia		3 783 157
4	Russian (ru) Астрономия		2 983 285
5	Arabic (ar) علم الفلك		2 915 207
6	French (fr) Astronomie		2 253 941
7	German (de) Astronomie		1 929 340
8	Indonesian (id) Astronomi		1 407 204
9	Thai (th) ดาราศาสตร์		1 310 916
10	Polish (pl) Astronomia		1 231 103

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Astronomy		22 363
2	Spanish (es) Astronomía		5 521
3	Russian (ru) Астрономия		3 709
4	French (fr) Astronomie		3 597
5	German (de) Astronomie		2 963
6	Japanese (ja) 天文学		2 527
7	Persian (fa) اخترشناسی		2 349
8	Portuguese (pt) Astronomia		2 114
9	Chinese (zh) 天文學		1 646
10	Simple English (simple) Astronomy		1 324

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Astronomy		1 526
2	German (de) Astronomie		440
3	French (fr) Astronomie		434
4	Spanish (es) Astronomía		425
5	Italian (it) Astronomia		258
6	Portuguese (pt) Astronomia		256
7	Russian (ru) Астрономия		255
8	Dutch (nl) Astronomie		234
9	Persian (fa) اخترشناسی		212
10	Hebrew (he) אסטרונומיה		203

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) اخترشناسی		5
2	Dutch (nl) Astronomie		4
3	English (en) Astronomy		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) Astronomiya		2
5	Hebrew (he) אסטרונומיה		2
6	Arabic (ar) علم الفلك		1
7	Esperanto (eo) Astronomio		1
8	Spanish (es) Astronomía		1
9	French (fr) Astronomie		1
10	Indonesian (id) Astronomi		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information