Things Named After Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Eddington (crater), on the Moon
- Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, used in the theory of general relativity
- Eddington luminosity, or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
- Eddington Medal, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
- Eddington mission, a proposed ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets
- Eddington-Dirac number, alternative name for the Dirac large numbers hypothesis
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