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This limit is called the Hill Sphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere

For the Sun it's a bit more than 1 light year, but in practice almost all orbits will be quite a bit under this: less than 0.8 ly.

The Hill Sphere also changes over time as stars pass us. The galaxy is more of a soup - the stars in the neighborhood don't have a static position to one another.

...so I would imagine that anything even 1ly out would be unstable, over several hundred million years. Solar systems may even exchange very outer outer "planets".

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