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Three-colour composite images of eight supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud composed of images taken at 7 (blue), 11 (green) and 15 (red) micrometers, with the near- and mid-Infrared Camera (IRC) onboard Akari. Contours indicate the intensity of the X-ray emission observed by the NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory. The line at the bottom of each image indicates a distance of 20 light-years.