# Eddington

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**Eddington** or **Edington** may refer to:

## People

- [Eddington Varmah](/source/Eddington_Varmah), Liberian politician
- [Arthur Eddington](/source/Arthur_Eddington), English astronomer
- [Eddington (surname)](/source/Eddington_(surname)), people with the surname

## Places

### Australia

- [Eddington, Victoria](/source/Eddington,_Victoria)

### United Kingdom

- [Eddington, Berkshire](/source/Eddington,_Berkshire)
- [Eddington, Cambridge](/source/Eddington,_Cambridge)
- [Eddington, Kent](/source/Eddington,_Kent)
- [Edington, Somerset](/source/Edington,_Somerset)
- [Edington, Wiltshire](/source/Edington,_Wiltshire) - [Edington Priory](/source/Edington_Priory)

### United States

- [Eddington, Maine](/source/Eddington,_Maine)
- [Eddington, Pennsylvania](/source/Eddington,_Pennsylvania) - [Eddington (SEPTA station)](/source/Eddington_(SEPTA_station))

## Other uses

- [Battle of Edington](/source/Battle_of_Edington), decisive victory by Alfred the Great
- [*Eddington* (film)](/source/Eddington_(film)), 2025 neo-Western thriller film by Ari Aster
- [Eddington (horse)](/source/Eddington_(horse)), American thoroughbred racehorse

### Named after Sir Arthur Eddington

- [Eddington (crater)](/source/Eddington_(crater)), on the Moon
- [Eddington (spacecraft)](/source/Eddington_(spacecraft)), a cancelled ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets
- [Eddington luminosity](/source/Eddington_luminosity) or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
- [Eddington Medal](/source/Eddington_Medal), awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
- [Eddington number](/source/Eddington_number), the number of protons in the observable universe
- Eddington–Dirac number, alternative name for the [Dirac large numbers hypothesis](/source/Dirac_large_numbers_hypothesis)
- [Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates](/source/Eddington%E2%80%93Finkelstein_coordinates), in the theory of general relativity

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