Right ascension 12 28 36.390 Redshift 0.009677 Type SAB(rs)bc Constellation Centaurus | Declination −43° 15′ 42.35″ Distance (38.8 ± 5.7 Mpc) Mass 5.8 × 10 M☉ | |
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Similar NGC 4451, NGC 4437, NGC 4448 | ||
NGC 4444 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. The morphological classification places it midway on the continuum between a barred spiral (SB) and an unbarred spiral (SA), with an inner region that lies between a ring-like (r) and a purely spiral form (s), and medium- (b) to loosely wound (c) outer spiral arms. This makes it a hybrid ringed, barred spiral galaxy. It has an angular size of 2.4 × 1.6 arcminutes and the estimated mass M is given log M = 9.76, yielding 5.8 billion solar masses.
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