Appreciate the detailed response. I think it would be a borderline miraculous photo if they are planets aligned in that way. Zooming they look more like artifacts or galaxies to me. I spend a good amount of time looking at planets from earth through binoculars and even with an atmosphere they resolve better than that.

I'm pretty sure I'm right about the planets. The planets are aligned that way. If you're experienced looking at them with binocs, you should be aware of that. The line the planets are on is known as the ecliptic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic

Also, if you look at the famous family portrait, you'll see they're in a pretty straight line as well

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/first-ever-solar-system-fa...