Does Superconductivity Occur in Outer Space?

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Have there been any observed instances of superconducting phenomena in outer space? It sure is cold enough for many substances to superconduct.
 
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I imagine that the ordered sort of structures ( crystaline ) that you need to get electrical superconductivity are not present in bulk out there in outer space.


there is a phase of the quark gluon plasma that is color superconducting,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_superconductivity

this state of matter would only have existed at very early times in the universe or in collapsed star cores. I am not an expert on nuclear physics so i don't know how solid this prediction is , but ... then again this isn't really electrical superconductivity either.
 
Would superconductivity be more likely to occur in superdense environments like the metallic hydrogen of Jupiter's core?
 

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