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Can we see atomic positronium lines in space? What could be learned from it and what are current challenges to doing so?

This answer to Have we detected spectra of exotic atoms in stars?1 currently ends: Estimates for observing lines corresponding to transitions between different bound states of positronium are not ...
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Have we detected spectra of exotic atoms in stars?

I was reading this wikipedia article on positronium (a type of exotic atom) and noticed it mentioned that positronium has a spectra (of course). So naturally this makes me wonder, have we looked at ...
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Strange matter objects other than neutron stars?

This question is about celestrial objects which are composed by exotic matter, and exotic matter I define as states of matter that are not commonly encountered such as Bose–Einstein condensates, ...
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