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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Plasma (physics)	10,636
2	Astronomy	8,173
3	Carl Sagan	8,172
4	Black body	4,614
5	Cosmology	3,493
6	Astrophysics	2,948
7	Event horizon	2,642
8	Compton scattering	1,759
9	Luminosity	1,470
10	Gravitational lens	1,092
11	Hydrostatic equilibrium	895
12	Metallicity	678
13	Olbers' paradox	618
14	Nucleosynthesis	602
15	Photodissociation	598
16	De Laval nozzle	576
17	Degenerate matter	519
18	Accretion (astrophysics)	511
19	Chandrasekhar limit	480
20	Neutronium	450
21	Light cone	407
22	R-process	392
23	Bidirectional reflectance distribution function	378
24	Modified Newtonian dynamics	368
25	Graphical timeline of the Big Bang	349
26	Planck scale	312
27	Galaxy rotation curve	286
28	S-process	277
29	Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope	254
30	Supernova nucleosynthesis	254
31	Graphical timeline of the universe	250
32	Eddington luminosity	242
33	Ejecta	198
34	Causal dynamical triangulation	172
35	Baryon asymmetry	167
36	Photometry (astronomy)	145
37	Reionization	145
38	Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death	144
39	Stellar magnetic field	144
40	Helium flash	143
41	Superluminal motion	140
42	Relativistic jet	140
43	Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism	136
44	Ekpyrotic universe	132
45	Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit	132
46	Jeans instability	131
47	Tensor–vector–scalar gravity	121
48	Bond albedo	121
49	Terrestrial gamma-ray flash	113
50	P-process	106
51	Environmental radioactivity	105
52	Plasmoid	104
53	Plasma parameters	101
54	Fractal cosmology	99
55	Asteroseismology	95
56	Standard Solar Model	94
57	Graphical timeline of the Stelliferous Era	93
58	Differential rotation	92
59	Flux tube	92
60	Hydrogen anion	86
61	Scalar–tensor–vector gravity	85
62	Blast wave	84
63	Hayashi limit	83
64	M-sigma relation	81
65	Photographic magnitude	78
66	Cassini's Laws	77
67	Hypercompact stellar system	76
68	Polytrope	75
69	Hayashi track	73
70	Lane–Emden equation	72
71	B²FH	70
72	Cosmochemistry	68
73	Rp-process	68
74	Relativistic beaming	67
75	Red clump	67
76	Coronal loop	66
77	Bidirectional scattering distribution function	61
78	K correction	54
79	Nuclear astrophysics	52
80	Amorphous carbonia	52
81	Daemon (astrophysics)	49
82	Jeans length	46
83	Nucleocosmochronology	45
84	Astronomical constant	45
85	Gravitational wave astronomy	45
86	Zevatron	42
87	IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society	42
88	Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity	41
89	Mass to light ratio	39
90	Strömgren sphere	34
91	Nordtvedt effect	34
92	Absolute horizon	34
93	Richtmyer–Meshkov instability	34
94	Gas torus	33
95	Iron peak	32
96	Einstein protocol	32
97	Sersic profile	32
98	Dynamical friction	30
99	High Time Resolution Astrophysics	30
100	Phillips relationship	30
101	Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equation	28
102	De Vaucouleurs' law	28
103	A New Theory of Magnetic Storms	27
104	Photodissociation region	27
105	Gravitational compression	26
106	Nuker Team	26
107	High Altitude Observatory	25
108	Critical ionization velocity	23
109	Mass segregation	23
110	Extragalactic cosmic ray	23
111	Highly charged ion	23
112	Gravitational lensing formalism	23
113	Firehose instability	23
114	Urca process	22
115	Gunn-Peterson trough	21
116	Richard Garfinkle	21
117	Sakurai's Object	21
118	Entropy (astrophysics)	21
119	Rotational Brownian motion (astronomy)	21
120	Einasto profile	20
121	ICRANet	20
122	Przybylski's star	19
123	Frequency separation	19
124	Dissociative recombination	18
125	Differential rotation in stars	18
126	Grey atmosphere	18
127	Virgo-centric flow	17
128	GravitySimulator	17
129	Polarization in astronomy	16
130	Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía	16
131	International Heliophysical Year	15
132	Weyl's postulate	14
133	Zeeman-Doppler imaging	14
134	Source function	13
135	Convective overturn	12
136	Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit	12
137	Plummer model	11
138	Electron beam ion trap	11
139	Epicyclic frequency	9
140	Magnetogravity wave	7
141	Gamma-ray Burst Coordinates Network	7
142	List of directly imaged stars	7
143	Ofer Lahav	7
144	Jeffrey C. Wynn	6
145	Archibald Higgins	less than 5 views
146	Whole Earth Blazar Telescope	less than 5 views
147	Circular polarization of starlight	less than 5 views
148	Champagne flow	less than 5 views
149	Darwin–Radau equation	less than 5 views
150	De Sitter effect	less than 5 views
151	Chondritic unfractionated reservoir	less than 5 views
152	Schwarzschild Criterion	less than 5 views
153	J. Marvin Herndon	less than 5 views
154	Sołtan argument	less than 5 views
155	Osipkov-Merritt model	less than 5 views
156	Jaffe profile	less than 5 views
157	Biermann battery	less than 5 views

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