Atlas and Catalogue of Infrared Sources in the Magellanic Clouds

Around the beginning of the sixteenth century, Portuguese and Dutch sailors first ventured into southern seas. With their keen navigational interest in the skies, they noted the continuous presence of two cloud-like features, not far from the almost immediately Southern Pole. The first literature mention of these ''clouds'' was in the journal written in 1520 by the Italian navigator Pigafetta on t...