Lyman-alpha blob

Lyman-alpha blob - astronomical object type. Article “Lyman-alpha blob” in English Wikipedia has 28.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Lyman-alpha blob”, its content was written by 46 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 115 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 57 times in English Wikipedia and cited 165 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #36760 in July 2008
• Global: #92086 in January 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #134654 in April 2009
• Global: #213595 in April 2009

There are 12 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, 2025 (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	Chinese (zh) 莱曼α团块		31.7308
2	Turkish (tr) Lyman-alfa lekesi		31.5493
3	Ukrainian (uk) Крапля Лайман-альфа		29.1865
4	English (en) Lyman-alpha blob		28.6551
5	Polish (pl) Bańka Lyman-alfa		27.7381
6	Russian (ru) Лайман-альфа пузырь		24.4077
7	French (fr) Globule Lyman-α		22.8565
8	Portuguese (pt) Bolha de Lyman-alfa		21.6941
9	Dutch (nl) Lyman alpha blob		20.597
10	Persian (fa) گوی لیمن آلفا		19.722

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lyman-alpha blob" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lyman-alpha blob		317 500
2	Polish (pl) Bańka Lyman-alfa		14 208
3	French (fr) Globule Lyman-α		9 431
4	Chinese (zh) 莱曼α团块		7 668
5	Dutch (nl) Lyman alpha blob		4 681
6	Portuguese (pt) Bolha de Lyman-alfa		1 377
7	Russian (ru) Лайман-альфа пузырь		1 292
8	Turkish (tr) Lyman-alfa lekesi		773
9	Arabic (ar) فقاعة ليمان ألفا		724
10	Ukrainian (uk) Крапля Лайман-альфа		434

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lyman-alpha blob" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lyman-alpha blob		2 651
2	Turkish (tr) Lyman-alfa lekesi		83
3	Chinese (zh) 莱曼α团块		78
4	Russian (ru) Лайман-альфа пузырь		44
5	French (fr) Globule Lyman-α		40
6	Polish (pl) Bańka Lyman-alfa		32
7	Portuguese (pt) Bolha de Lyman-alfa		17
8	Arabic (ar) فقاعة ليمان ألفا		13
9	Persian (fa) گوی لیمن آلفا		9
10	Ukrainian (uk) Крапля Лайман-альфа		7

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

Language versions of the article "Lyman-alpha blob" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lyman-alpha blob		46
2	French (fr) Globule Lyman-α		19
3	Dutch (nl) Lyman alpha blob		13
4	Polish (pl) Bańka Lyman-alfa		11
5	Arabic (ar) فقاعة ليمان ألفا		6
6	Ukrainian (uk) Крапля Лайман-альфа		5
7	Chinese (zh) 莱曼α团块		5
8	Portuguese (pt) Bolha de Lyman-alfa		4
9	Basque (eu) Lyman-alpha orbaina		2
10	Russian (ru) Лайман-альфа пузырь		2

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

Language versions of the article "Lyman-alpha blob" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) فقاعة ليمان ألفا		0
2	English (en) Lyman-alpha blob		0
3	Basque (eu) Lyman-alpha orbaina		0
4	Persian (fa) گوی لیمن آلفا		0
5	French (fr) Globule Lyman-α		0
6	Dutch (nl) Lyman alpha blob		0
7	Polish (pl) Bańka Lyman-alfa		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Bolha de Lyman-alfa		0
9	Russian (ru) Лайман-альфа пузырь		0
10	Turkish (tr) Lyman-alfa lekesi		0

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

Language versions of the article "Lyman-alpha blob" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lyman-alpha blob		57
2	Arabic (ar) فقاعة ليمان ألفا		33
3	Ukrainian (uk) Крапля Лайман-альфа		23
4	Turkish (tr) Lyman-alfa lekesi		18
5	Chinese (zh) 莱曼α团块		10
6	French (fr) Globule Lyman-α		7
7	Polish (pl) Bańka Lyman-alfa		5
8	Dutch (nl) Lyman alpha blob		4
9	Russian (ru) Лайман-альфа пузырь		3
10	Persian (fa) گوی لیمن آلفا		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فقاعة ليمان ألفا
en	English Lyman-alpha blob
eu	Basque Lyman-alpha orbaina
fa	Persian گوی لیمن آلفا
fr	French Globule Lyman-α
nl	Dutch Lyman alpha blob
pl	Polish Bańka Lyman-alfa
pt	Portuguese Bolha de Lyman-alfa
ru	Russian Лайман-альфа пузырь
tr	Turkish Lyman-alfa lekesi
uk	Ukrainian Крапля Лайман-альфа
zh	Chinese 莱曼α团块

Best Rank

English: #134654 04.2009

Global: #213595 04.2009

Best Rank

English: #36760 07.2008

Global: #92086 01.2014

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