How to complete Events?

[GarageGuy]

Hi, I'm completely new to this game. I'm a few hours in and I'm already stuck. I have a number of items in my Situation Log (I believe they're collectively known as "events") that I am unable to proceed on, for seemingly contradictory reasons. All of the events ("Translate Alien Mural", "Habitable Worlds Survey", et al.) say in red text "Scientist is present - Has science ship in orbit". However it says this whether I have a staffed science ship in the corresponding system or not. What the heck is the game trying to tell me?
Thanks for helping a noob out!

 

[prismaticmarcus]

most of them will be anomalies. the ship doesn't just have to be there. you have to tell it to e.g. 'study anomalies'

...have you switched the full tutorial option on?

 

[InvisibleBison]

Having a science ship in the system where the event is isn't enough. You have to have the ship in orbit of the object where the event is located. Eg, if the event is on a planet, the ship has to be at that specific planet. It can't work on the event if it's elsewhere in the system.

 

[TrotBot]

just select the science ship, right click the star on the galaxy map, or the specific planet on the star system view, and then click "investigate anomaly" or whatever. most of these you can quickly switch view to by clicking a camera button on the correct item in the situation log.