Some 5,000 light-years from this week’s World Economic Forum and the worst earthly economic crisis since the Great Depression, astronomer Dimitar Sasselov is charting the New Frontier for investment capital over a bespoke iPhone app that connects with a planet called Sheila.

“Globalization is complete,” the director of Harvard University’s Origins of Life Initiative Project says, tapping his smart phone into the radio-telescope transmissions that on Nov. 12, 2002, led him to discover OGLE-TR-56b, the exosolar world that he unofficially named after his wife.

Read the Bloomberg article.