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by itishappy 460 days ago
Pretty confident. Emission spectra are very specific. The relationship between specific emission lines are invariant to changes in wavelength (redshift/blueshift), and they're complicated enough that it's not too big a deal to weed out false positives.

Here's a textbook example:

https://images.nagwa.com/figures/explainers/469167813067/17....