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There is nothing like a beautiful sunset at the end of the day. If you have ever wondered how it would look to observe sunset on another planet, wonder no more. Geronimo Villanueva (NASA, Goddard), has created the Sunset simulator.
If you want to see all the sunsets side by side, have a look at this video. White dot represents the position of the Sun as it sets on that planet.
How would sunset look on #Kepler186f? Thanks to @PlanetaryHabLab we have simulated comparison of a sunset on Kepler-186f and Earth. 
Now that I introduced you to how science communication can go wrong, let's see why it goes off course sometimes. There are multiple factors, but I think the greatest pitfall in the translation from scientists to journalists and then the public is: The Habitable Zone. A thread:
Because the Habitable Zone is, in fact, NOT what is shown in the GIF before. It doesn't encompass ALL the things that make a planet "liveable" for humans. What it means is that the planet is situated "right" in relation to its host star to have liquid water, in a crude sense.
As you can see by the quotation marks, it's more complicated than that. @ravi_kopparapu published a paper in 2014, taking into account many more factors, like CO2 and H2O dominated atmospheres, planetary mass, stellar type, etc.
