Space observatory

Quality:

Space telescope - instrument in outer space for observing distant space objects. Article “Space observatory” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Space observatory”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1149 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 33561 times in all languages (5051^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #503 in August 2017
• Global: #247 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7609 in March 2015
• Global: #40314 in December 2021

There are 45 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	French (fr) Télescope spatial		90.1982
2	Hebrew (he) טלסקופ חלל		46.7796
3	English (en) Space telescope		43.0794
4	German (de) Weltraumteleskop		41.386
5	Russian (ru) Астрономический спутник		39.8135
6	Chinese (zh) 空间望远镜		39.7544
7	Finnish (fi) Avaruustutkimusasema		37.466
8	Ukrainian (uk) Космічна обсерваторія		32.3922
9	Armenian (hy) Տիեզերական աստղադիտակ		32.0532
10	Greek (el) Διαστημικό τηλεσκόπιο		31.3383

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Space telescope		1 269 439
2	Spanish (es) Observatorio espacial		448 789
3	Japanese (ja) 宇宙望遠鏡		368 191
4	German (de) Weltraumteleskop		344 308
5	French (fr) Télescope spatial		247 472
6	Thai (th) กล้องโทรทรรศน์อวกาศ		185 116
7	Chinese (zh) 空间望远镜		120 434
8	Polish (pl) Teleskop kosmiczny		97 657
9	Russian (ru) Астрономический спутник		91 670
10	Arabic (ar) مقراب فضائي		87 216

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) Space telescope		3 783
2	German (de) Weltraumteleskop		934
3	Japanese (ja) 宇宙望遠鏡		889
4	French (fr) Télescope spatial		597
5	Chinese (zh) 空间望远镜		402
6	Spanish (es) Observatorio espacial		303
7	Polish (pl) Teleskop kosmiczny		202
8	Italian (it) Telescopio spaziale		142
9	Thai (th) กล้องโทรทรรศน์อวกาศ		131
10	Russian (ru) Астрономический спутник		128

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Space telescope		192
2	German (de) Weltraumteleskop		108
3	French (fr) Télescope spatial		100
4	Hebrew (he) טלסקופ חלל		81
5	Italian (it) Telescopio spaziale		57
6	Japanese (ja) 宇宙望遠鏡		57
7	Dutch (nl) Ruimtetelescoop		54
8	Hungarian (hu) Csillagászati műhold		42
9	Chinese (zh) 空间望远镜		37
10	Finnish (fi) Avaruustutkimusasema		35

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	Hebrew (he) טלסקופ חלל		2
2	Catalan (ca) Observatori espacial		1
3	German (de) Weltraumteleskop		1
4	Italian (it) Telescopio spaziale		1
5	Korean (ko) 우주망원경		1
6	Chinese (zh) 空间望远镜		1
7	Arabic (ar) مقراب فضائي		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Peyk vasitəsilə müşahidə üsulu		0
9	Belarusian (be) Астранамічны спадарожнік		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Астрономически спътник		0

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

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