Natural Phenomena
- Lyman (crater), a lunar impact crater that lies in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon, named for Theodore Lyman
- The Lyman series of spectral lines (physics)
- Lyman-alpha forest, in astronomical spectroscopy, the sum of absorption lines arising from the Lyman alpha transition in the spectra of distant galaxies and quasars
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