Holding down Alt while in the galaxy map shows the name of all the star systems.
You don't need the cutter to get the artefacts out of the rock you can melee, gun bash or shoot it out of the rock. Never have to worry about forgetting the cutter ever again.
Particle Beam Weapons like Big Bang and Novalight can cause distortion orbs when you a kill a target which lingers for a while and this will damage anyone including non hostile NPC's in a small area so don't use it places like Neon or New Atlantis unless you want to rack up a large bounty.