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I think an indicator would be that within the zone I can see my icon on the map .. outside the zone no icon.
That it?
It's mostly just a nice little in-game indicator, same as the star type roughly determining how many planets/what type/where they orbit and so on.
You asked "What is habitable zone?", and I said "life could exist within that zone" as part of my answer. Which is true; a habitable zone is where life can exist in a star system, as we currently understand things.
You play as a mech robot, and there are no people or animals in the game; so habitual zone is irrelevant to gameplay.
You can mine and build factories on any solid planet in the entire game. Environmental conditions have no effect on you, the factories, or the combat. Doesn't mater if the planet is closer to the star than Mercury is, farther from it than Pluto, orbits it directly or orbits as the satellite of gas/ice giant. All solid planets are the same size and you can build on all of them.
(Okay, wind and solar strength mater for wind turbine and solar panel power generation but the rest of your factory doesn't care if there's no air or if its constantly blowing a hurricane)
And the only non-solid planets are the gas of ice giants.
The habitable zone has no meaning in this game. Its just part of the astrophysics the game included as an extra parameter.
Within the confines of this game the concept has no bearing on gameplay. In Galactic Empyrion for example it makes a huge difference.
It's a bit confusing with the naming as many planets that exist in habitable zones are certainly not habitable by earth like life, but it really just serves as a guide in exoplanetary studies to say that a body in this zone can support liquid water on the surface, so we should take a closer look at those and ignore the ones outside of it.
the habitable zone is a set of orbits (mostly a circle .. elipses wont work all the time) in which water is neither frozen nor evaporating and therefore life such as ourselves is possible.. since the only reference of life is the one that allows the kind of life you can find on earth
but who is to say that there isnt any other form of life ????
so the habitable zone should be renamed to "liquid water zone" to prevent any misconceptions what this zone is about
funnily enough Europa lies far out of the "habitable Zone of our Sun" but its theorized that beneath the Icy Shell is a Ocean of Liquid Water heated through Friction (cause the moon orbits Jupiter which Tugs on the planet all the time)
The best-reasoned speculation I've encountered is _The Anthropic Cosmological Principle_ by Barrow and Tipler. They make a case that any extra-terrestrial life likely to exist will be remarkably similar to life forms on earth.
But paradoxiically perhaps, they believe that anything we would call intelligent life is very rare indeed, despite the anthropic principle itself suggesting that it would be commoner than people used to suppose.
I just wonder what it does .. what it means .. what it affects