NGC 4449

NGC 4449 is the name of a galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. NGC 4449 has an angular extent of 5.5 '× 3.6 ' and an apparent brightness of 9.4 mag.

NGC 4449 is an irregular galaxy of the Large Magellanic Cloud - type, also called LMC - type. It is about 12.5 million light years away. Originally a barred spiral galaxy, she changed due to enormous gravitational forces during penetration, so to speak, collision with a neighboring galaxy, which took place about 500 million years, their shape. It came hot gas areas from which emerged the so-called starbursts, subsequently, regions with star transforming zones. These impress in RGB images as blue and red condensations.

NGC 4449 was discovered on 27 April 1788 by the German - British astronomer William Herschel.