  High resolution observations with HST have recently allowed us to resolve and
study several very tight clusters of newly born massive stars in the Magellanic
Clouds. Situated in an extremely rare category of HII regions, being only 5 to
10 arcsecs across and of high excitation and extinction, these stars are just
hatching from their natal molecular clouds. Since the SMC is the most
metal-poor galaxy observable with very high angular resolution, this work may
provide valuable templates for addressing issues of star formation in the very
distant metal-poor galaxies of the early Universe.
