Interstellar medium

Quality:

Interstellar medium - matter and radiation in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. Article “Interstellar medium” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Interstellar medium”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1283 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 123 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9945 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1259 in November 2012
• Global: #1430 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4211 in August 2015
• Global: #17981 in September 2013

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	English (en) Interstellar medium		72.2567
2	Chinese (zh) 星际物质		57.9125
3	Turkish (tr) Yıldızlararası ortam		51.0848
4	Galician (gl) Medio interestelar		40.5309
5	Russian (ru) Межзвёздная среда		33.8829
6	Finnish (fi) Tähtienvälinen aine		32.9867
7	Hebrew (he) תווך בין-כוכבי		32.4283
8	Serbian (sr) Међузвездани медијум		28.3762
9	Ukrainian (uk) Міжзоряне середовище		27.6318
10	Catalan (ca) Medi interestel·lar		26.6197

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Interstellar medium		3 388 986
2	Russian (ru) Межзвёздная среда		749 371
3	German (de) Interstellares Medium		476 423
4	French (fr) Milieu interstellaire		423 202
5	Spanish (es) Medio interestelar		405 920
6	Japanese (ja) 星間物質		308 966
7	Italian (it) Mezzo interstellare		246 571
8	Polish (pl) Ośrodek międzygwiazdowy		175 578
9	Chinese (zh) 星际物质		174 221
10	Portuguese (pt) Meio interestelar		160 470

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) Interstellar medium		9 287
2	Russian (ru) Межзвёздная среда		1 136
3	German (de) Interstellares Medium		868
4	French (fr) Milieu interstellaire		766
5	Chinese (zh) 星际物质		627
6	Japanese (ja) 星間物質		587
7	Italian (it) Mezzo interstellare		515
8	Finnish (fi) Tähtienvälinen aine		369
9	Spanish (es) Medio interestelar		362
10	Polish (pl) Ośrodek międzygwiazdowy		268

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Interstellar medium		291
2	French (fr) Milieu interstellaire		100
3	German (de) Interstellares Medium		98
4	Russian (ru) Межзвёздная среда		93
5	Italian (it) Mezzo interstellare		49
6	Spanish (es) Medio interestelar		37
7	Polish (pl) Ośrodek międzygwiazdowy		36
8	Portuguese (pt) Meio interestelar		34
9	Dutch (nl) Interstellair medium		33
10	Hebrew (he) תווך בין-כוכבי		32

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	Serbian (sr) Међузвездани медијум		2
2	English (en) Interstellar medium		1
3	Arabic (ar) وسط بين نجمي		0
4	Belarusian (be) Міжзорнае асяроддзе		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Междузвездна среда		0
6	Catalan (ca) Medi interestel·lar		0
7	Czech (cs) Mezihvězdné prostředí		0
8	Danish (da) Interstellart medium		0
9	German (de) Interstellares Medium		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Interstela medio		0

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

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