Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Worklist

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This is a list of the most important astronomy articles. All should eventually become either featured articles or good articles. Please work on bringing these articles up to good or featured standards! The standards required are given at Wikipedia:What is a featured article? and Wikipedia:What is a good article?.

Note that the worklists for specific, named astronomical objects (and their sub-pages) is available at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Astronomical_objects/Worklist.

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Table rows can be added with {{astro-todo-item|section|article|status|remarks}}. Under Status put FA for Featured Article, A for A-Class, GA for Good Article, B for B-Class, and norefs to indicate an article that needs references.

[edit] Vital articles

The following astronomy articles are listed as Wikipedia:Vital articles#Astronomy.

Vital Astronomy Good Needs review - push to FA!!!
Asteroid Good Former FAC
Big Bang Featured
Black hole A-Class Former FA; GA candidate
Comet Featured
Cosmology B-Class
Eclipse
Galaxy Featured
Light-year B-Class
Neutron star
Orbit B-Class
Planet B-Class Removed from GA list
Solar System Featured
Star Featured
Supernova Featured
Universe B-Class Has references but really not adequate ones

[edit] High importance

ISM Interstellar medium
H II region Featured
Dark nebula
Supernova remnant
Stars Variable star
Cepheid variable Unreferenced
Red giant
White dwarf Featured
Stellar evolution Stellar evolution Unreferenced
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram Unreferenced
Star formation
Main sequence Good
Stellar classification
Stellar population Unreferenced
Stellar associations Stellar association
Globular cluster Featured
Open cluster Featured
Cosmos Galaxy cluster Unreferenced
Supercluster Unreferenced
Gamma ray burst Good
Quasar B-Class
Dark matter Good
Hubble's law Good
Standard candle Unreferenced

[edit] Medium importance

Medium Accretion disc B-Class
Bok globule
BL Lacertae object Unreferenced Stub
Brown dwarf
Debris disk
Extrasolar planet Featured
Gravitational microlensing
H I region
Herbig-Haro object Featured
Protostar
Planetary nebula Featured
Stellar nucleosynthesis
Wolf-Rayet star

[edit] Low importance

Low History of astronomy
History of supernova observation Good