NGC 4444

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 and the estimated mass "M" is given log "M" = 9.76, yielding solar masses.