Stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds: looking through the dust

Abstract

We present the first results of our study of stellar populations in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds based on multi-band WFPC2 observations of "random" fields taken as part of the "pure parallel" programme carried out with the HST as a service to the community.Comment: Two pages, one figure, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 241 "Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies", eds. A. Vazdekis and R. Peletie