Star formation

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Star formation

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Star formation - process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in interstellar space, sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions", collapse and form stars. Article “Star formation” in English Wikipedia has 82.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 84 references and 11 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Star formation”, its content was written by 291 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1077 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1669 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9804 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #719 in September 2001
  • Global: #810 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #22713 in October 2009
  • Global: #32466 in October 2009

There are 42 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Italian (it)
Formazione stellare
98.5263
2German (de)
Sternentstehung
90.2162
3Hindi (hi)
तारा निर्माण
88.1463
4English (en)
Star formation
82.3103
5Basque (eu)
Izarren eraketa
78.0598
6Ukrainian (uk)
Зореутворення
69.8213
7Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Stjernedanning
61.2122
8Galician (gl)
Formación estelar
54.525
9Russian (ru)
Формирование звезды
50.0617
10Bulgarian (bg)
Звездообразуване
44.5225
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Star formation" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Star formation
2 479 181
2Spanish (es)
Formación estelar
501 133
3French (fr)
Naissance des étoiles
362 835
4German (de)
Sternentstehung
338 533
5Russian (ru)
Формирование звезды
318 807
6Arabic (ar)
تكون النجوم
317 670
7Italian (it)
Formazione stellare
223 772
8Japanese (ja)
星形成
132 444
9Polish (pl)
Powstawanie gwiazd
111 053
10Portuguese (pt)
Formação estelar
110 420
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Star formation" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Star formation
4 984
2German (de)
Sternentstehung
1 020
3French (fr)
Naissance des étoiles
780
4Russian (ru)
Формирование звезды
764
5Spanish (es)
Formación estelar
484
6Japanese (ja)
星形成
307
7Italian (it)
Formazione stellare
290
8Polish (pl)
Powstawanie gwiazd
264
9Chinese (zh)
恆星形成
219
10Czech (cs)
Vznik hvězdy
205
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Star formation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Star formation
291
2French (fr)
Naissance des étoiles
122
3Italian (it)
Formazione stellare
81
4German (de)
Sternentstehung
80
5Spanish (es)
Formación estelar
58
6Russian (ru)
Формирование звезды
53
7Arabic (ar)
تكون النجوم
40
8Dutch (nl)
Stervorming
29
9Swedish (sv)
Stjärnbildning
27
10Hungarian (hu)
Csillagkeletkezés
22
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Star formation" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تكون النجوم
1
2Bulgarian (bg)
Звездообразуване
1
3Basque (eu)
Izarren eraketa
1
4Ukrainian (uk)
Зореутворення
1
5Catalan (ca)
Formació estel·lar
0
6Czech (cs)
Vznik hvězdy
0
7German (de)
Sternentstehung
0
8Greek (el)
Σχηματισμός των αστέρων
0
9English (en)
Star formation
0
10Esperanto (eo)
Stelformado
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Star formation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Star formation
1 669
2French (fr)
Naissance des étoiles
800
3Italian (it)
Formazione stellare
718
4Japanese (ja)
星形成
484
5Catalan (ca)
Formació estel·lar
457
6Vietnamese (vi)
Sự hình thành sao
452
7Portuguese (pt)
Formação estelar
443
8Chinese (zh)
恆星形成
438
9Arabic (ar)
تكون النجوم
408
10Ukrainian (uk)
Зореутворення
380
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تكون النجوم
bgBulgarian
Звездообразуване
caCatalan
Formació estel·lar
csCzech
Vznik hvězdy
deGerman
Sternentstehung
elGreek
Σχηματισμός των αστέρων
enEnglish
Star formation
eoEsperanto
Stelformado
esSpanish
Formación estelar
etEstonian
Täheteke
euBasque
Izarren eraketa
faPersian
ستاره‌زایی
fiFinnish
Tähtien synty
frFrench
Naissance des étoiles
glGalician
Formación estelar
hiHindi
तारा निर्माण
huHungarian
Csillagkeletkezés
idIndonesian
Pembentukan bintang
itItalian
Formazione stellare
jaJapanese
星形成
kaGeorgian
ვარსკვლავის წარმოქმნა
koKorean
항성 형성
ltLithuanian
Žvaigždėdara
msMalay
Pembentukan bintang
nlDutch
Stervorming
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Stjernedanning
noNorwegian
Stjernedannelse
plPolish
Powstawanie gwiazd
ptPortuguese
Formação estelar
roRomanian
Apariția stelelor
ruRussian
Формирование звезды
simpleSimple English
Star formation
skSlovak
Vznik hviezdy
srSerbian
Formiranje zvezda
svSwedish
Stjärnbildning
taTamil
விண்மீன்கள் உருவாக்கம்
thThai
การก่อตัวของดาวฤกษ์
trTurkish
Yıldız oluşumu
ukUkrainian
Зореутворення
urUrdu
ستارے کی تشکیل
viVietnamese
Sự hình thành sao
zhChinese
恆星形成

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#22713
10.2009
Global:
#32466
10.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#719
09.2001
Global:
#810
09.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Star formation from Wikipedia articles about Star, Molecular cloud, Stellar evolution, Protostar and Gravity. Whereas reading the article about Star formation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Molecular cloud, Protostar, Pillars of Creation, Stellar evolution and Star.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

News from 1 July 2026

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In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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