Do solar panels produce electricity outside a solar system?

Question

If you took a group of solar panels outside the solar system into interstellar space, would they produce power? Would they get power from other stars?

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Answer 1

As long as they are in a decent range of a star that’s bright enough, they’ll work. There’s a sweet spot for each star: too close and the panels would burn up, too far and the light intensity will be too low (like our moon, or the evening sun). Any star like our sun will do.