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by UltraSane 505 days ago
Yes. In telescopes they use high-end CCDs with really big pixels for better light sensitivity and zero dead pixels.

This is a picture of the CCD array for the Gaia space observatory that used parallax to measure precise distances and slightly less precise angular velocities of billions of objects

http://www.bo.astro.it/~altavilla/FTP/GAIA/IMAGES/The%20comp...