Trivia
There's a number of galaxies that are easy to see from the Milky Way, but that for hypothetical observers located in NGC 891 would be invisible, at least in the optical, due to its inclination as they lie in the Zone of Avoidance of this galaxy and thus their light is blocked by NGC 891's interstellar dust. Examples of this include not only our galaxy but also the Andromeda Galaxy, that would appear so edge-on as we see NGC 891, and most notably the Virgo Cluster.
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