<P> Some of the most varied colors at sunset can be found in the opposite or eastern sky after the Sun has set during twilight . Depending on weather conditions and the types of clouds present, these colors have a wide spectrum, and can produce unusual results . </P> <P> In some languages, points of the compass bear names etymologically derived from words for sunrise and sunset . The English words "orient" and "occident", meaning "east" and "west", respectively, are descended from Latin words meaning "sunrise" and "sunset". The word "levant", related e.g. to French "(se) lever" meaning "lift" or "rise" (and also to English "elevate"), is also used to describe the east . In Polish, the word for east wschód (vskhud), is derived from the morpheme "ws"--meaning "up", and "chód"--signifying "move" (from the verb chodzić--meaning "walk, move"), due to the act of the Sun coming up from behind the horizon . The Polish word for west, zachód (zakhud), is similar but with the word "za" at the start, meaning "behind", from the act of the Sun going behind the horizon . In Russian, the word for west, запад (zapad), is derived from the words за--meaning "behind", and пад--signifying "fall" (from the verb падать--padat'), due to the act of the Sun falling behind the horizon . In Hebrew, the word for east is' מזרח', which derives from the word for rising, and the word for west is' מערב', which derives from the word for setting . </P> <P> The 16th - century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to present to the world a detailed and eventually widely accepted mathematical model supporting the premise that the Earth is moving and the Sun actually stays still, despite the impression from our point of view of a moving Sun . </P> <P> Sunsets on other planets appear different because of differences in the distance of the planet from the Sun and non-existent or differing atmospheric compositions . </P>

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