Thanks for the clarification, lots of good information in your post. I have updated my cheat sheet with the information that you provided..
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Higher scanning levels also reveal space monsters, ancient ruins and details about wormholes in systems. If the system has an accretion disk, it will reveal the accretion disk's economic potential. You can know more details on what information may be revealed in a system at which scanning level by checking the scanning level tooltip in the system view.
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So I am trying to get a better handle on what exactly is reveled at each level of exploration So I put together this cheat sheet below. I just want to see if it matches what others have noticed.
Also, I am unsure how "hidden" systems (black holes, neutron stars, etc) are discovered. When doing a mouse over an sector (like B5 or H2) in the remote exploration screen, it will display the likelihood of finding all of the hidden systems. Are all of the systems procedurally generated at the beginning of the game and you have a chance of discovering the hidden system each time you scan a sector based on the reported likelihoods? And must I do a full scan to insure that there are no hidden systems or are they always reveled by a lower level scan?