In new game settings, max and min NPR distance should be in jumps, not in light years.
The actual distance in light years is useless from a gameplay perspective, and it's also hard to estimate exactly how many jumps away the NPRs will be.
Furthermore, if it was in jumps, it would also be usable in Not Real Stars games. As far as I understand it, min and max NPR distance has no effect in Not Real Stars games.
And, if min distance was set to 0 jumps, maybe there should be a chance for NPRs to spawn inside the solar system, maybe on Mars, Venus or Titan.
In the research screen, it should be possible to "move down in queue" research that are currently being researched.
The industry queue already works like that.
It would make switching the current research much easier and faster, because we don't have to scrap and rebuild the entire queue every time.