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

Theoretically yes, though the amount of power they would generate far from a star would be too small to be useful. This is why the Voyager crafts are not solar-powered – they are already too distant to collect enough power from the Sun to operate.