Planetary nebula

Planetary nebula - emission nebula consisting of a shell of ionized gas ejected from a red giant. Article “Planetary nebula” in English Wikipedia has 93.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 110 references and 21 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Planetary nebula” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Planetary nebula”, its content was written by 345 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1731 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1020 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12552 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #353 in December 2004
• Global: #710 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24196 in April 2019
• Global: #29845 in April 2019

There are 50 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	Chinese (zh) 行星状星云		94.0366
2	English (en) Planetary nebula		93.8254
3	Catalan (ca) Nebulosa planetària		89.0456
4	Portuguese (pt) Nebulosa planetária		74.6375
5	Ukrainian (uk) Планетарна туманність		70.5744
6	Spanish (es) Nebulosa planetaria		68.9676
7	Korean (ko) 행성상 성운		68.4605
8	Turkish (tr) Gezegenimsi bulutsu		61.5655
9	Italian (it) Nebulosa planetaria		59.9558
10	Slovenian (sl) Planetarna meglica		54.9205

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Planetary nebula" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Planetary nebula		2 834 511
2	Spanish (es) Nebulosa planetaria		686 631
3	Russian (ru) Планетарная туманность		379 380
4	French (fr) Nébuleuse planétaire		358 550
5	German (de) Planetarischer Nebel		349 743
6	Japanese (ja) 惑星状星雲		263 530
7	Portuguese (pt) Nebulosa planetária		209 305
8	Italian (it) Nebulosa planetaria		186 253
9	Polish (pl) Mgławica planetarna		174 487
10	Thai (th) เนบิวลาดาวเคราะห์		152 858

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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 "Planetary nebula" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Planetary nebula		7 161
2	Spanish (es) Nebulosa planetaria		1 249
3	French (fr) Nébuleuse planétaire		1 000
4	Russian (ru) Планетарная туманность		876
5	Japanese (ja) 惑星状星雲		708
6	German (de) Planetarischer Nebel		687
7	Chinese (zh) 行星状星云		447
8	Italian (it) Nebulosa planetaria		385
9	Polish (pl) Mgławica planetarna		378
10	Portuguese (pt) Nebulosa planetária		262

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Planetary nebula		345
2	German (de) Planetarischer Nebel		133
3	French (fr) Nébuleuse planétaire		106
4	Italian (it) Nebulosa planetaria		90
5	Russian (ru) Планетарная туманность		89
6	Spanish (es) Nebulosa planetaria		85
7	Dutch (nl) Planetaire nevel		69
8	Chinese (zh) 行星状星云		52
9	Hungarian (hu) Planetáris köd		42
10	Catalan (ca) Nebulosa planetària		38

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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 "Planetary nebula" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Planetary nebula		2
2	Korean (ko) 행성상 성운		1
3	Lithuanian (lt) Planetiškasis ūkas		1
4	Dutch (nl) Planetaire nevel		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Planetarna maglica		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Планетарна туманність		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Tinh vân hành tinh		1
8	Arabic (ar) سديم كوكبي		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Planetar dumanlıq		0
10	Belarusian (be) Планетарная туманнасць		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 "Planetary nebula" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 行星状星云		1 214
2	Catalan (ca) Nebulosa planetària		1 187
3	English (en) Planetary nebula		1 020
4	French (fr) Nébuleuse planétaire		672
5	Arabic (ar) سديم كوكبي		579
6	Turkish (tr) Gezegenimsi bulutsu		467
7	Ukrainian (uk) Планетарна туманність		455
8	German (de) Planetarischer Nebel		437
9	Russian (ru) Планетарная туманность		423
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tinh vân hành tinh		351

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سديم كوكبي
az	Azerbaijani Planetar dumanlıq
be	Belarusian Планетарная туманнасць
bg	Bulgarian Планетарна мъглявина
ca	Catalan Nebulosa planetària
cs	Czech Planetární mlhovina
da	Danish Planetarisk tåge
de	German Planetarischer Nebel
el	Greek Πλανητικό νεφέλωμα
en	English Planetary nebula
eo	Esperanto Planeduma nebulozo
es	Spanish Nebulosa planetaria
et	Estonian Planetaarudu
eu	Basque Nebulosa planetario
fa	Persian سحابی سیاره‌نما
fi	Finnish Planetaarinen sumu
fr	French Nébuleuse planétaire
gl	Galician Nebulosa planetaria
he	Hebrew ערפילית פלנטרית
hi	Hindi ग्रहीय नीहारिका
hr	Croatian Planetna maglica
hu	Hungarian Planetáris köd
id	Indonesian Nebula planeter
it	Italian Nebulosa planetaria
ja	Japanese 惑星状星雲
ka	Georgian პლანეტური ნისლეული
kk	Kazakh Ғаламшарлық тұмандық
ko	Korean 행성상 성운
la	Latin Nebula planetaria
lt	Lithuanian Planetiškasis ūkas
ms	Malay Nebula planet
nl	Dutch Planetaire nevel
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Planetarisk tåke
no	Norwegian Planetarisk tåke
pl	Polish Mgławica planetarna
pt	Portuguese Nebulosa planetária
ro	Romanian Nebuloasă planetară
ru	Russian Планетарная туманность
sh	Serbo-Croatian Planetarna maglica
simple	Simple English Planetary nebula
sk	Slovak Planetárna hmlovina
sl	Slovenian Planetarna meglica
sr	Serbian Планетарна маглина
sv	Swedish Planetarisk nebulosa
th	Thai เนบิวลาดาวเคราะห์
tr	Turkish Gezegenimsi bulutsu
uk	Ukrainian Планетарна туманність
uz	Uzbek Planetar tumanliklar
vi	Vietnamese Tinh vân hành tinh
zh	Chinese 行星状星云

Best Rank

English: #24196 04.2019

Global: #29845 04.2019

Best Rank

English: #353 12.2004

Global: #710 01.2013

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