If your research benefits from the use of the NED database, the following acknowledgement in your paper would be appreciated:
This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
When citing NED within a paper, the following statement may be inserted as a footnote:
The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.