NASA has revealed that a massive solar flare that erupted on the Sun over the weekend has hit the Earth's magnetic field at approximately 8:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, following the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME). It started when an X1.9-category flare erupted from the Sunspot 11302 - a 60,000-mile-long region that NASA calls 'behemoth' - at 5:40 am EDT on September 24. Read more