Messier 77

Messier 77 - spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. Article “Messier 77” in English Wikipedia has 54.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 41 references and 7 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Messier 77” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Messier 77”, its content was written by 125 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 820 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 881 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7120 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #20805 in March 2025
• Global: #2156 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #213154 in May 2026
• Global: #224021 in May 2026

There are 40 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	English (en) Messier 77		54.509
2	Chinese (zh) M77		54.0584
3	French (fr) M77 (galaxie)		51.0571
4	German (de) Messier 77		42.9424
5	Vietnamese (vi) Messier 77		41.2047
6	Finnish (fi) Messier 77		40.5793
7	Swedish (sv) Messier 77		39.816
8	Czech (cs) Messier 77		35.4226
9	Greek (el) Μεσιέ 77		33.7419
10	Italian (it) M77 (astronomia)		32.1116

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Messier 77" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 77		293 589
2	German (de) Messier 77		47 000
3	Russian (ru) M 77 (галактика)		41 209
4	Spanish (es) Galaxia espiral M77		37 611
5	Polish (pl) Messier 77		33 910
6	Chinese (zh) M77		33 156
7	Japanese (ja) M77 (天体)		26 001
8	French (fr) M77 (galaxie)		25 655
9	Italian (it) M77 (astronomia)		20 475
10	Korean (ko) 고래자리 A		18 167

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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 "Messier 77" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 77		2 470
2	Indonesian (id) Messier 77		428
3	German (de) Messier 77		285
4	Spanish (es) Galaxia espiral M77		165
5	Chinese (zh) M77		164
6	Japanese (ja) M77 (天体)		133
7	French (fr) M77 (galaxie)		111
8	Russian (ru) M 77 (галактика)		108
9	Italian (it) M77 (astronomia)		96
10	Polish (pl) Messier 77		48

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

Language versions of the article "Messier 77" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier 77		125
2	French (fr) M77 (galaxie)		81
3	German (de) Messier 77		71
4	Italian (it) M77 (astronomia)		60
5	Russian (ru) M 77 (галактика)		45
6	Dutch (nl) Messier 77		34
7	Croatian (hr) Messier 77		32
8	Hungarian (hu) Messier 77		32
9	Turkish (tr) NGC 1068		24
10	Polish (pl) Messier 77		23

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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 "Messier 77" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier 77		2
2	Arabic (ar) مسييه 77		1
3	Azerbaijani (az) NGC 1068		1
4	Russian (ru) M 77 (галактика)		1
5	Belarusian (be) M77 (аб’ект Месье)		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) M77		0
7	Catalan (ca) Messier 77		0
8	Czech (cs) Messier 77		0
9	German (de) Messier 77		0
10	Greek (el) Μεσιέ 77		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 "Messier 77" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Messier 77		881
2	French (fr) M77 (galaxie)		666
3	Romanian (ro) Messier 77		533
4	Basque (eu) Messier 77		416
5	Arabic (ar) مسييه 77		348
6	Dutch (nl) Messier 77		322
7	German (de) Messier 77		229
8	Vietnamese (vi) Messier 77		227
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Messier 77		203
10	Turkish (tr) NGC 1068		189

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مسييه 77
az	Azerbaijani NGC 1068
be	Belarusian M77 (аб’ект Месье)
bg	Bulgarian M77
ca	Catalan Messier 77
cs	Czech Messier 77
de	German Messier 77
el	Greek Μεσιέ 77
en	English Messier 77
eo	Esperanto M77
es	Spanish Galaxia espiral M77
et	Estonian Messier 77
eu	Basque Messier 77
fa	Persian مسیه ۷۷
fi	Finnish Messier 77
fr	French M77 (galaxie)
he	Hebrew M77
hi	Hindi मॅसिये 77
hr	Croatian Messier 77
hu	Hungarian Messier 77
id	Indonesian Messier 77
it	Italian M77 (astronomia)
ja	Japanese M77 (天体)
ko	Korean 고래자리 A
lt	Lithuanian Mesjė 77
nl	Dutch Messier 77
no	Norwegian Messier 77
pl	Polish Messier 77
pt	Portuguese Messier 77
ro	Romanian Messier 77
ru	Russian M 77 (галактика)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Messier 77
sk	Slovak Messier 77
sr	Serbian Месје 77
sv	Swedish Messier 77
tr	Turkish NGC 1068
uk	Ukrainian Мессьє 77
vi	Vietnamese Messier 77
zh	Chinese M77
zhminnan	Min Nan Messier 77

Best Rank

English: #213154 05.2026

Global: #224021 05.2026

Best Rank

English: #20805 03.2025

Global: #2156 07.2011

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