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What is the photo sensor on the Hubble Telescope comparable to in terms of MegaPixels as used in retail cameras?

Got one more for you. This is the text from a post I made to reddit months ago...Care to comment?

as follows: Here's an idea that I've been pitching... Task NASA scientists with solving/developing a cheap renewable energy technology and let them use the profits to fund their programs- like going to Mars. Hundreds of scientists were laid off and they could have kept their jobs, solved a huge set of technical problems, developed some proprietary tech, gotten us off being dependent on foreign governments and kept some really smart people off of unemployment. How hard would this be?

Thanks-

Thanks for the responses but more importantly, thanks for the good work you and others have done and continue to do to advance our understanding and level of awe, of our universe.

Do you have software that composites the multiple images as layers and... will the next iteration of Hubble use the same compositing process but with sensors at the current megapixel level. Lastly, is my question moot because of data transmission requirements of potentially huge image/data files from so far away?