... In the Center of NGC 604 . ... Credit: H. Yang ( UIUC ), J. Hester ( ASU ), HST , NASA Explanation: Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33 , a large cloud of gas spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars. But NGC 604 was so large, it could form enough stars to make a globular cluster . Many young stars from this cloud are visible above, along with what is left of the initial gas cloud. ...