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Listener Dickson Mukisa from Uganda has been gazing up at the stars. But he’s not making wishes. He wants to know whether we can harness the energy of the stars in the same way we do with our OWN star – the sun. After all, they may seem small and twinkly to us, but each one is a gigantic flaming ball of energy, with a power outputs averaging around 40 quadrillion kilowatt-hours per year – EACH! With somewhere between 100 and 400 BILLION stars in our own galaxy alone, that’s a lot of power!

Can we get ‘solar power’ from stars that are such a long way away from earth? And what might we use it for?

Alex Lathbridge heads out in to the dark of the night, with only starlight as his guide, to find out.