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Gravitational fields do not come to an end, they just get weaker, the farther you go from the mass which creates them. Since our sun (also known as Sol) has existed for about four and a half billion years, its gravitational field extends for about four and a half billion light years. Of course, the field is very weak at that distance, too weak even to detect. In practical terms, the gravitational field of the sun is strong enough to hold some objects in orbit, at distances of several billion miles. Comets orbit at those distances.

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