Okay, I'm sure that I'm the last player to have noticed this but just in case there's one other latecomer out there: I finally realized that moving the mouse while the initial starfield animation plays will move your sight direction. You keep "moving" in the same direction so the stars sweep by going sideways. It's rather cool and somthing to do while waiting for the game to finish initializing. Not necessarily recommended if one is prone to motion sickness. ;-)

Since Pathfinder I am almost convinced that all the stars you see in a system reflect the exact postitions of what you can see in the Galaxy Map, meaning it's an exact representation of them and not just a fixed background picture !
However, I tried some experiments to prove it but I couldn't because it's damn difficult to orientate yourself in the Galaxy Map based on what you see just before entering the map, I did orientate my ship to some recognizable star formations, then I entered the GM hoping I will be oriented in the same axis and direction - but this wasn't the case unfortunately, so I couldn't prove it...But I still think it's true anyway.

I don't know, if that still holds, but Reddit's u/NMS_Survival_Guru posted, that the system local stars do accurately reflect your position as shown on the Galaxy Map:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/8fk4zh/skybox_stars_are_accurate_to_your_location/

Here's the snapshot he took for comparing star positions: https://i.imgur.com/387ZXv1.jpg


Producing more proof would be a very interesting experiment, nonetheless.

Some of the Systems passing by do have names tacked onto them, while the vast majority doesn't -- for ages I've tried to find out, if there's some hidden meaning to that, or if the loading screen just randomly starts somewhere, moving through the galaxy in an equally random direction, randomly showing some of the names.

Since we currently don't have Discovery Services in GoGs most recent incarnation of the game (1.57), I think we can rule out the possibility of the named systems being those already discovered by other players.

And I think I've yet to see one in the loading screen I discovered myself. Also, if those were systems discovered by me or another player, I should see more dense clouds of named systems.