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Me and my friend are new on factorio i couldnt work out why my hole base keeps turning off all the time and i worked out that it is because the soler panels keep turning of its really annoying because the aliens keep going past all my guns and braking everything we made what am i suppose to do about it thank you.

I advise you to add enough accumulators to get through the night.
Here : https://wiki.factorio.com/Solar_panel#Notes. It should help.

There is a day night cycle you know. That's pretty obvious with everything getting darker and lights turning on

When you first get solar panels you can't entirely rely on them but they have priority over steam power. That means less pollution and less coal consumption. After you have set up oil processing you get access to accumulators, which buffer the power for the night.

seems like u are using lasers. they eat alot of power. i would suggest use a mixture of gun, laser turrets. also flamethrower turrets if you have oil to spare.