Star formation

Quality:

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 Simple English Wikipedia has 43.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Star formation”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1077 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 137 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9804 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #605 in April 2015
• Global: #810 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5709 in June 2017
• 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Italian (it) Formazione stellare		98.5263
2	German (de) Sternentstehung		90.2162
3	Hindi (hi) तारा निर्माण		88.1463
4	English (en) Star formation		82.3103
5	Basque (eu) Izarren eraketa		78.0598
6	Ukrainian (uk) Зореутворення		69.8213
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Stjernedanning		61.2122
8	Galician (gl) Formación estelar		54.525
9	Russian (ru) Формирование звезды		50.0617
10	Bulgarian (bg) Звездообразуване		44.5225

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Star formation		2 479 181
2	Spanish (es) Formación estelar		501 133
3	French (fr) Naissance des étoiles		362 835
4	German (de) Sternentstehung		338 533
5	Russian (ru) Формирование звезды		318 807
6	Arabic (ar) تكون النجوم		317 670
7	Italian (it) Formazione stellare		223 772
8	Japanese (ja) 星形成		132 444
9	Polish (pl) Powstawanie gwiazd		111 053
10	Portuguese (pt) Formação estelar		110 420

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) Star formation		4 984
2	German (de) Sternentstehung		1 020
3	French (fr) Naissance des étoiles		780
4	Russian (ru) Формирование звезды		764
5	Spanish (es) Formación estelar		484
6	Japanese (ja) 星形成		307
7	Italian (it) Formazione stellare		290
8	Polish (pl) Powstawanie gwiazd		264
9	Chinese (zh) 恆星形成		219
10	Czech (cs) Vznik hvězdy		205

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Star formation		291
2	French (fr) Naissance des étoiles		122
3	Italian (it) Formazione stellare		81
4	German (de) Sternentstehung		80
5	Spanish (es) Formación estelar		58
6	Russian (ru) Формирование звезды		53
7	Arabic (ar) تكون النجوم		40
8	Dutch (nl) Stervorming		29
9	Swedish (sv) Stjärnbildning		27
10	Hungarian (hu) Csillagkeletkezés		22

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	Arabic (ar) تكون النجوم		1
2	Bulgarian (bg) Звездообразуване		1
3	Basque (eu) Izarren eraketa		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Зореутворення		1
5	Catalan (ca) Formació estel·lar		0
6	Czech (cs) Vznik hvězdy		0
7	German (de) Sternentstehung		0
8	Greek (el) Σχηματισμός των αστέρων		0
9	English (en) Star formation		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Stelformado		0

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

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