There is something called the Goldilocks zone suggesting a series of quite stringent conditions on the distance from a star to support the creation of life. Not sure creation is the word one would like to use though ;)
Either way, eclipses on other planets aren't nearly as awesome, Mars for example is patheticsville compared to ours: https://sm.mashable.com/t/mashable_in/photo/default/mars_1u88.1248.png
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