The prospect of discovering a celestial object like an asteroid is sure enough to ignite wonder among astronomy enthusiasts, including young school-going children.

Over the past four years, several amateur astronomers and students from across Nepal have had a unique opportunity to survey the sky, interpret real-time telescopic images, and even discover asteroids. In collaboration with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC), the Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) offers students from Nepal a chance to add to NASA's database of asteroids hurtling in space.

The overall purpose of the initiative, a large-scale worldwide effort under NASA, is to encourage students and citizen scientists to identify and document asteroids in the earth's environment to assess their threat to the planet and study them.

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