When a neutron star is formed, how does its magnetic field become so much more powerful than when it was a star?

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When a neutron star is formed, how does its magnetic field become so much more powerful than when it was a star?

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They aren’t more powerful, just denser.

It’s the same magnetic field but now it’s focused into the size of a neutron star (roughly the size of Earth) rather than the size of a really massive start (much larger than our Sun, so millions of times larger than earth).

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