Stars on Cosmic Exploration

[Supersnow845]

Does anyone know what the stars are for on the Cosmic Exploration report page on Lodestone? There's different amounts for each stage, and different amounts coloured in, and it's bugging me.

It’s how many phases are completed

Based on the moon there are 20 phases, a gold star means “10 phases” and silver is each individual phase. However sometimes they can be a little unclear with oftentimes progression being a star with the completion of what’s going on being another star. They never really make it incredibly clear what constitutes a star as sometimes a multi stage progression phase can net two stars but it broadly indicates progression