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I will discuss some of the lessons we are learning from Spitzer observations of the Magellanic Clouds and our Galaxy. (Relatively) high resolution mid-infrared imaging provides an unbiased view of star formation in diverse environments from the inner to outer Galaxy and into the Magellanic Clouds and even in the Bridge. In the LMC, the SAGE survey recently presented here by Margaret Meixner is allowing detailed investigation of star formation scaling relations such as the Schmitt-Kennicutt law, on scales less than 100pc. Building on such photometric results, spectroscopy reveals detailed physical conditions in circum(proto)stellar gas and dust. We can study the feedback effects of the 30 Doradus super star cluster on sub-parsec scales, and start to make detailed comparisons of star forming regions in those different environments.
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